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"Companies: allow your employees to freely work on open-source and it will improve your recruiting."

It will also make it harder/more costly for them to retain their top talent (since external groups will be able to identify them for poaching), so good luck getting many of them to buy into this.



Which is no different from having your top talent poached based on resumes or word of mouth.

Quiz: if you're worried about your best employees being recruited away, how do you react?

1. Give them more opportunities to grow, learn, advance, and increase their earnings. 2. Try to chain them to your company with restrictive policies.

If you said "#2", I can tell you why your people are looking elsewhere.


What data do you have to support this? I think it's the exact opposite.




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