Retention backfires on both the organization and employee

Why would you want to try to keep someone somewhere they don’t want to be? 

Why would you want someone that doesn’t want to be there? 

Retaining someone is draining. Why not invest your resources into finding someone who wants to be there? 

Where did the idea of retention come from? If there are more than enough people to work for the company, then why focus on retention? 

If no one wants to work for the organization, then that is some pretty powerful feedback for the organization. 

Retention is to coerse and manipulate someone to want to continue with a company. What would happen if you allowed people to leave? 

What are you not looking at or don’t want to look at and instead are employing ‘retention strategies’?

This post came to me today and I didn’t want to write about it or post it. I haven’t posted anything business or work related here, it was more of a personal focus, so this, to my mind feels out of place, but there’s something here because it wants to be posted and I’m going to trust it.