Company Training / Development

[Azza]

Just out of interest how much emphasis does your company / department put on developing staff? Is it an 'Investor in People'? What sort of yearly budget do people's companies / departments allocate and the number of staff that are there?


The IT dept I work in now is going through a lot of technology and framework changes, yet there is a training budget of £20,000 and there are 52 (I think) members of staff.

Now I can't work out if not a lot / nothing is done here because they're afraid people will leave, but people leave any way when they see there's no progression.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Pretty much unlimited training budget iirc where it's of benefit but I believe there are penalties if you leave within a certain time period afterwards. That said, we are only a small department and they are encouraging training for life out side and away from the company.

 

[john_s]

No formal training as such here, though we do all get a Pluralsight subscription.

For companies are worried about training people who then leave... should they not be more worried about not training people who then stay?

 

[Semple]

My work has its own internal training facilities with thousands of courses available for a wide range of things (mostly web-based). Throughout the year there are occasionally classroom style sessions at some location, so travel/food/accommodation is paid for.

We also have one day a quarter where you devote the day to training - pretty much anything you like.