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Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact

The time has come, we believe, for a new employer-employee compact. You can’t have an agile company if you give employees lifetime contracts–and the best people don’t want one employer for life anyway. But you can build a better compact than "every man for himself." In fact, some companies are doing so.

We three come from an environment where the employer-employee relationship has already taken new forms–the high-tech start-up community of Silicon Valley. In this world, adaptability and risk taking are acknowledged as crucial to success, and individual entrepreneurs can have a big impact if the networks they’ve built are strong enough.

by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh

Full Story: http://hbr.org/2013/06/tours-of-duty-the-new-employer-employee-compact/ar/1

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