Office Archeology

As I sit at my desk I can't help but think that my office runs under the assumption that we're playing one big game of telephone. Our office has such a high turnover rate (if you're here for more than 2 years you are very senior) that the way we are organized is based on water-down versions of previous office incarnations. For example, we plan a day of briefings for our alumni based on an event we last had two years ago. The entire basis of who we invited, what rooms we reserved, what speakers we asked to brief, was based on the contents of a folder the previous office had made for us from 2003.

Today, my job was to create this folder. I'm sure part of the folder's contents will be lost in translation so that eventually, the event we had yesterday will no longer resemble anything that our organization hosts in the future. Instead of preparing a folder for people we don't know who will be holding our jobs, shouldn't the organization try to figure out why turnover is so high and maybe come up with a solution? If people felt like sticking around to make sure the job was well done for more than two years than maybe we could have a well-planned event that didn't feel like such a slipshod production. Just a suggestion.