Does the IT workplace suffer from a Dead Sea effect? Bruce Webster, an IT analyst, says yes, and this is the reason large organizations struggle to hold onto their best IT engineers.

Located below sea level, water only leaves the Dead Sea by evaporation and what is left is generally unable to support life. This, in short, is the predicament of large IT departments, which work in a similar way. <A HREF="http://blogs.eweek.com/careers/content001/hiring/does_good_it_talent_evaporate.html?kc=EWKNLNAV041608STR4">The most talented and effective engineers are the ones most likely to leave</A> or "evaporate," argues Webster, fed up with the "stupidities" that can plague large organizations and with other opportunities that they can readily move to.