Want great employees? Pay them to quit.
Pay your new employees to quit, and the folks that stick around will be the truly committed. I stumbled upon this story about Zappos via Signal vs Noise.
After about a week at Zappos (the $1 billion internet shoe sales company), new employees are well into the immersion process. They are working their tails off and starting to drink the juice. That’s when they get “the offer.” The company offers them $1,000 to quit.
Bill Taylor, original founder of Fast Company, writes about this galvanizing policy, as well as Zappos culture of commitment to the customer experience, in a brief article on how the shoe company has become blazingly successful.