Chris Root
Chris Root
agree attend classes company difficult felt friday gave paid saturday third year
It was a difficult year for them because it was a sacrifice. The company paid 100% of their costs, gave them every third Friday off to go to school, but they had to agree to give up every third Saturday to attend classes as well. We felt like if we gave up Friday, they could give up Saturday.
although amount company cost created extremely increase lost people per rate retention technical tremendous
By doing this, we created a tremendous increase in the amount of technical people in the company than we previously had. Our retention rate of those people has also been extremely good. We've only lost two of them. Although it cost about $10,000 per employee, it's been extremely successful.