Define: "Dead Sea Effect" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"If you look around and everyone competent has left you are the next evaporation target. Run."
A phenomenon where highly skilled employees leave a toxic environment leaving behind less capable staff.
What does "Dead Sea Effect" actually mean?
"When the talented engineers get fed up and bounce leaving you surrounded by the salty useless remnants of middle management."
"We need to improve retention to avoid the dead sea effect in our engineering department."
"The RTO mandate triggered a massive Dead Sea Effect; now the only people left are the ones who cannot pass a technical interview anywhere else."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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