[MAGZine]

or, maybe if a company is scared of losing an employee, they should pay them market value.

holding a grudge over them because you trained them and are trying to recoup your costs is idiotic and doesn't work.

asking the government to subsidize corporate training is a non-starter. it is a corporation's job to both DEVELOP and RETAIN talent. Both. Companies would like very much to do neither--but putting in the effort is required for good results.

[baron816]

You say this like "this is the moral and right thing to do". If I could snap my fingers and make it happen, then I would. That's not how the world works though. Companies have a profit incentive. And that's a good thing. We want them to train employees in ways that will be productive and end up having them output something that is valuable. But that training can be expensive.

What happens if everyone concludes that they'd be better off waiting for a competitor to incur the cost of training someone, then hiring them away? We'd get into a situation where no one wants to train anyone.

[AlotOfReading]

Non-competes exist and that's already the situation. They're all over the place in basic retail, who I can assure you is not doing a lot of valuable training.