Just imagine your employees getting hit by a truck…

The Philippine Software Industry Association recently slammed the aggressive “poaching” of Singaporean recruiters. You can read it here and here.

Problem: An employee sometimes leaves in a hurry and do not give a 30 day notice period.

Solution: Stricter work visa requirements for Filipinos. A resignation letter and a clearance should be presented.

IMHO. This is a flawed solution. If their problem is the 30 day notice period not being followed then they should lobby for its stricter implementation. They wanted to make clearance a requirement because it places the employee in their mercy. Sheesh!

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Another quote:

It’s the expertise … these people have spent months on a project or with a client and they’re familiar with it. You can’t replace that kind of knowledge. So we can’t meet deadlines, end up being penalised, or we lose the customer and damage our track record.

Do they know the concept of truck number?

Companies spend millions for fault tolerance and redundancy in their server hardware. The cost of disruption is more expensive than the fault tolerant and redundant hardware. Now if the smooth flow of their software project is important, I think they should put their money where their mouth is.

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The brain drain is really an issue. This is happening not only in the IT industry. But this is not an excuse for implementing bad solutions.