It's very telling about the culture of an organization when they actually appreciate their employees, even more so when they leave.
I've worked at too many places where managers try to block people from leaving by panicking, giving guilt trips, or being outright hostile, even more so after they've left. It's like they took a page straight out of Animal Farm and started blaming all problems on the employee who left.
Kudos to Mozilla for being the former and not the latter.
There's a really good article about this from Alex Papadimoulis, the founder of thedailywtf -
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Tur... which pulls in a lot of the ideas from the "Cravath System"[1], a hiring and "employee/career management" process developed by a law firm some 100 years ago.
I've worked at too many places where managers try to block people from leaving by panicking, giving guilt trips, or being outright hostile, even more so after they've left. It's like they took a page straight out of Animal Farm and started blaming all problems on the employee who left.
Kudos to Mozilla for being the former and not the latter.