Retention—It’s far more difficult to retain team members who fundamentally disagree with how things should be done and why, even if they agree on what work to do. And constantly rebuilding a team through hiring is both exhausting and inefficient—people do their best work a year or two into working together with the same group. They learn one another’s intricacies and idiosyncrasies, anticipate needs, establish efficient communication and process patterns, and know what works and doesn’t for their teammates. According to Namely’s analysis of more than twenty thousand startups in the United
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