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## WHAT IS IT?

This model explores the relationship between employee tenures at companies and compensation. This tests the notion that changing jobs more frequently leads to better compensation in a shorter period of time.

## HOW IT WORKS

This model creates a number of employers and employees. At each step, each employer evaluates its workforce needs and adjusts its number of job openings accordingly. At each step, the employees decide whether they want to stay in their job and negotiate for a promotion or if they want to apply for a new job.

Employees have a tendency (stayers/changers) which influences which decision they make at each tick. Stayers have a tipping point which is a random value at which they will forego their tendency.

## HOW TO USE IT

- `num-employees` - The number of employees in the simulation.
- `num-employers` - The number of employers in the simulation.
- `annual-salary-increase` - The annual salary increase an employer will receive if un-
successful for both applying for a job and negotiating.
- `salary-increase-negotiation` - The salary increase that an employer receives upon a successful negotiation for a raise.
- `salary-increase-changing-jobs` - The salary increase that an employer receives upon successfully changing jobs.
- `inflation` - The annual inflation applied at each time step.

## THINGS TO NOTICE

Which group performs better? Stayers or Changers?

How fast does one group reach a plateau versus the other?

What are the numbers of employees with Tenure < 5 compared to those >= 5?

How do the numbers of successful negotiations compare with successful job changes?

## THINGS TO TRY

Try reducing the salary increase from changing jobs to match the annual salary increase/salary increase from negotiation to see how that affects salaries.

Try reducing the number of employers/increasing the number of employees to see the effect on number of available jobs and how that relates to the salaries.

Play around with the inflation to see the effects of inflation on salaries.

Adjust values to match average values of other countries to see if they are consistent to South Africa.

## EXTENDING THE MODEL

Introduce age to the employees and have willingness to change jobs be a function of their age. Older people tend to not want to move around too much!

Empower the employers more. Have different types of employers. Some that frown upon employees who move around too much. Some that want to hire more youth.

Introduce a job satisfaction property on the employees and track that as employees move around.

## RELATED MODELS

* Wilensky, U. (2011). NetLogo Simple Economy model. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/SimpleEconomy. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.