Why does the industry optimize for finding a new job every ~18 months to stay competitively paid rather than promoting growth within a company? Is there an efficiency I& #39;m missing? Constant attrition, recruiting, interviewing, negotiating, onboarding, etc seems inefficient at best

TLDR feeling undercomped makes employees feel bad and they& #39;ll leave and companies will then have to pay market rate for their replacements but most companies won& #39;t do market rate adjustments because it& #39;s hard to justify spending money and quantify costs of attrition https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙃" title="Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht">

That& #39;s the most well assuming answer at least. There are likely a lot of bad reasons and justifications. How old were you when you realized you were just another corporate resource to be exploited?

@ the people replying that you hire people and job hopping is bad and only for greedy people with bloated egos and your employees never leave because they& #39;re under compensated - try listeninghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="™️" title="Registered-Trade-Mark-Symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Registered-Trade-Mark-Symbol"> it& #39;s really great.