Talent Ecology: How to plug your company's brain drain

How to plug your company's brain drain

Posted by Sean Rehder (Permalink) | 0 Comments | | Friday, August 04, 2006

When workers retire, they take critical know-how out the door. But one government agency found a better way to pass it on.
by Anne Fisher, Fortune Magazine senior writer

"(Fortune Magazine) -- In the switching yard at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, about 20 miles outside Chattanooga, stand eight gigantic transformers. The huge machines, which weigh nearly 700 tons each and dwarf the hard-hatted humans working on and around them, take power from Sequoyah's nuclear generators, ramp it up to 160,000 volts, and send it out to the Tennessee Valley Authority's grid, which spans five Southern states.

'If the transformers fail, you're not putting out any power,' says Dave Stinson, 26, a senior electrical engineer whose job it is to make sure that doesn't happen. "

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