As an employer it can be hard when you lose a good member of staff. It forces you to do a bit of navel-gazing; why did they leave?, if they were unhappy, why didn't they say?, are we bad employers? ... that sort of thing. This happened to us when the longest serving member of the development team left for pastures new in July. That was a sad day and to be honest the office hasn't been quite the same since. But three months on and guess what, the prodigal son returns in November.
Happy? You bet we are and not just restricted to clapping hands, might even go as far as the second verse and stamp our feet!