Then make sure your staff aren't forced to get a competing offer just to get market rates.
I'm not sure what this has to do with what I said. I'm talking about the cost in time and effort to hire someone, not to retain them. (Regardless, I have no say or control over salaries, so I can't do much about this.)
The vast majority of people applying for roles will switch if the offer is right. Sure if you offer 10% more I'd much rather just get my current employer to match... but if you offer 30+% then we have a deal. I don't want to stay with an employer who will underpay me by so much.
Eh, maybe. I'm not sure I agree. Even if I was feeling underpaid at my current company, it'd have to be a ridiculously sweet deal to get me to move (I mean, so sweet that no one would ever offer me something like that). I have enough forms of attachment other than salary that even say a 50% raise would be unlikely to get me to budge. I think there are quite a few people who feel similarly.
And that's what I object to: someone shopping around with zero intention of accepting another job, but only doing so to use as leverage with their current employer. Yeah, "it's just business", but the people at these other companies whose time you're wasting are real people who don't deserve to be jerked around.
I'm not sure what this has to do with what I said. I'm talking about the cost in time and effort to hire someone, not to retain them. (Regardless, I have no say or control over salaries, so I can't do much about this.)
The vast majority of people applying for roles will switch if the offer is right. Sure if you offer 10% more I'd much rather just get my current employer to match... but if you offer 30+% then we have a deal. I don't want to stay with an employer who will underpay me by so much.
Eh, maybe. I'm not sure I agree. Even if I was feeling underpaid at my current company, it'd have to be a ridiculously sweet deal to get me to move (I mean, so sweet that no one would ever offer me something like that). I have enough forms of attachment other than salary that even say a 50% raise would be unlikely to get me to budge. I think there are quite a few people who feel similarly.
And that's what I object to: someone shopping around with zero intention of accepting another job, but only doing so to use as leverage with their current employer. Yeah, "it's just business", but the people at these other companies whose time you're wasting are real people who don't deserve to be jerked around.