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People may hate this, but people leaving is valuable to companies as a whole.

Lawyers typically specialize and they work off the same body of work everywhere (the same set of laws). Having worked for 10 law firms doesn’t mean that they know something current employees don’t.

Tech isn’t like that. Everywhere is different, many of us touch multiple specializations, the body of knowledge we need is always shifting. An engineer that has worked 10 places very likely does know things your current employees don’t, like different tools.

Losing an engineer is bad for the individual business, but engineers moving around is good for businesses in general.