• NationalGeometric@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’d like to see the breakdown between corporate and tech support on some of these.

    All call center jobs suck. Are those low tenured numbers averaged in?

  • HereIAmSendMe68@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I may or may not have worked for Apple. After just a few months I was approached my a major tech company that was pretty soft and they offered me about 75% more with knowing absolutely 0 about me other than knowing I was capable of getting a job for Apple.

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    1 year ago

    I didn’t read if they gave reasons but having Apple on your resume is a bump when you’re moving on and up.

    Just from personal experience.

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    1 year ago

    When I worked at Apple as an At Home Advisor, we had sooo many people lose their jobs due to “internet issues”. They’d ask me to tell the sup they’d be late because they couldn’t sign in, but also tell me they overslept.

    Apple at the time (2011-ish) had only so many times they’d put up with a bad connection being an issue. If you couldn’t get it under control, they’d cut you loose.

    I really wish they’d do that at my new job because we 100% have people citing network issues when absolutely nothing points to a legit issue. But no, we let people continue to “have issues” for 4-5 years before even considering firing them.

  • jazzdrums1979@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Retail is a revolving door. They’re never going to pay people enough or invest in their development to keep them engaged.

    For non-retail, a lot of people who know to play the game put a 2-3 years somewhere build their resume up so they can leave and level up elsewhere.

  • Dan-in-Va@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    This study doesn’t indicate whether people take other jobs within the company (move around) which would be leaving a position.

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    1 year ago

    Damn, I was light weight, considering working part time at an Apple store just to get some of the benefits; specifically the discounts and being able to up my portfolio because apparently you get a discount on their shares somehow.

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    1 year ago

    This data may be skewed. Tech companies grew substantially during Covid which would greatly reduce the average tenure.

    Amazon for example grew from something like 900k worldwide employees to 1.2M which is a 33% in less than two years.

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    1 year ago

    If high turnover isn’t a problem for some or all of these companies or if it’s even good for them, then they aren’t “worst” at retention - it’s their model.

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    1 year ago

    Surprising. But it is not just Apple. Look at Amazon and Meta also being really bad.

    Google and Microsoft doing much better.

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      1 year ago

      Amazon and Meta might not prioritize retention and may even prefer high turnover, so it’s not because they’re “bad” at retention.