[ars]

> you train them so your business can expand

That only worked when people stayed with a single employer for years. These days they would take the training and get a better job somewhere else.

[Hyena]

Most businesses take about 6 months to train people, it seems, from informal polling of acquaintances.

[tomjen3]

What is it they say? "Better to educate your people and risk they leave than to not, and risk they stay?"

But yeah, training would be more likely if you either took a lower salary (part of your income comes in the form of training) or agreed to stay with the firm for a number of years.