[neilv]

> allow firms to hire people on the condition that they'll stay a few years once they've be trained and can at least recoup the cost of training

I favor training, loyalty, seeing a system through a lifecycle (rather than job-hopping before you see both cause and effect), etc., but...

Requiring an employee to stay at a company, especially in our current not-very-scrupulous business culture, sounds like a recipe for indentured servitude.

[baron816]

Read my last paragraph. I'm suggesting a way that would allow employees to leave whenever they want, but to derisk training for companies so that they still have an incentive to hire and train untested people.