I run a 36 people IT company, specializing in web solutions. I am personally involved in everything that goes out from here. I have a team of 6 designers, working on various projects. A larger company which is setting up its web solutions team, has offered a job to one of them at twice the salary that I am able to pay now. I expect a lot of business to come by in the next few weeks, and can't really afford to lose her, a fact of which she is well aware.
If I give her an increase, I will end up upsetting all the others, who are also good, though not as good as her. I also don't want her to think that she can get away with threatening me everytime.
Do you think I should try to negotiate with her? And what about the other designers? I am not sure I can afford to or want to give an increase to everyone, but I can't afford to lose any of them. Please help.
We are a fairly young company, with 126 people. Last month, two of the employees got married to each other. Both of them have been with us from the inception of the company and we don't really want either of them to go. But I suppose there would be problems since one of them is clearly a high performer and the other is not.
Right now, we have them working on separate projects, so that they don't interact professionally, but that is not always going to be possible. We don't really know what to do with this situation. Can you discuss some possible implications, and what we could do?
We are a company who has been in operation for the last 4 years, and have grown to 180 people strong. I discovered, accidentally, that one of my employees is doing software development work on his own for other people. I tried to speak to him on this, but he fobbed me off saying it was a friend's father, and it was done as a favour, on his personal time and resources, nothing professional about it. I have, however, found out that he has been doing this for some other people as well.
In all fairness to him, his work hasn't suffered, as all his deliverables are on schedule. But this is an activity which is in direct competition to the company's business. I have been doing some research, and have found out about 3 other guys doing the same. I really don't know what to do about it - how to check this, whether to check this at all, how to keep track. Would appreciate a legal position on this, as well as the industry practice on this one.
We are a 50 crore organisation, with 4 regional offices, we are thinking of providing cars to our regional sales managers. Do you think we should allow employees to lease their own cars to the company or buy new cars?
We are a 100 crore company with 2 development facilities in Nasik and Pune. We would like to offer a VRS package to 10 of our managers. Do we need to have a VRS plan for the whole company to enable them to get the tax benefit on VRS?
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