[jleyank]

Are they showing some sign of regretting the loss, or operating on the premise that the good workers are in the office and the problem children are going away? If it’s the latter, then talent is fungible and they’ll just find more.

[justin_oaks]

I think part of the problem is that it's hard to measure the productivity of individual workers and even harder to link that to specific outcomes.

Thus if all the best workers are replaced and now we have higher system failures, more bugs, and slower project releases, then management can choose to believe that those problems are unrelated to the decision that caused people to leave.

Only the lowest members of the team understand the loss in real terms... and who wants their thoughts and opinions on things?

[SuoDuanDao]

There's a definite internal disagreement over how to see it. A lot of managers are highly extraverted and will justify any cost to the business if it lets them work in the environment they prefer. Others had looked at productivity and seen it increase over the same time period. In my opinion the former group won a Pyrrhic victory but the war is still ongoing.