[jacquesm]

Glad to hear you're ok!

If you see enough companies over a long enough time these risks materialize with great regularity. Common reasons: burn out (probably #1), underpaid and undervalued so easily 'poached' (I don't like that term but don't have a better one),chronic illness, accidents, death. The latter is fortunately rare, two instances across 200+ companies across 15 years.

But the other ones happen frequently enough to take them serious. Most companies, unless they are very small are usually able to mitigate this to a very large degree without breaking the bank.

[tikhonj]

You could say "underpaid and undervalued so they leave" which places the agency in the right place and covers strictly more situations. You don't need to be actively recruited in a market with pay differentials this large.

[ZuLuuuuuu]

That is a good point. Fortunately, I do feel like I am valued in this company. But at that time, I was relatively new in this company and I have moved from another country to work at this company. So I was eager to prove myself to them and was doing overtime regularly, which might have played a role in my carelessness (or is "reverie" the correct word?) at the split second of the accident.

[wolverine876]

> 'poached' (I don't like that term but don't have a better one)

How about just saying that they left? 'Poached' puts the agency in the hands of their new employer, as if the person was cattle and their job change was due to cattle rustlin'. (Not that some management doesn't look at it that way.)

[jacquesm]

That's exactly how it is though: without their new employer reaching out with an offer the default is for people to stick around.