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Kinda curious as how companies are spinning this news internally?

A normal amount of churn is perfectly healthy and can be dealt with, but if entire teams disappear together within a month or two... I'm guessing there's where the trouble appears?

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Are they?

Until Friday I worked for a company with very high churn. Complaints on Glassdoor. Complaints in the suggestion box.

Not a peep from anyone officially.

I'm with a multinational multibillion dollar company and entire teams will quit on core products all the time. The VPs make up stats and dodge questions on calls. The reality is that it's actually never really hurt the company because the deals that are being made are millions of dollars and delivery is guaranteed by insanely complex requirements and app certifications that alternative offerings can't meet.

Yeah, one of the naive things I thought when I joined the work world was that operational excellence would matter significantly. In practice, there is too much friction for companies to switch unless it decays into a disaster.

Agreed. A company that would enable a work environment that fosters a mass exodus would be unlikely to feel accountable to any remaining employees.

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