There'll be a crush of cameras at the front door of the White House on January 20 as scores of media outlets scramble to record the moment that the new president walks in. But, wait--who're those people who'll be sliding in quietly behind him? They're the ones who'll spend the next four years whispering in the president's ear, sitting in strategy sessions, running presidential councils, filling agency slots, and pulling the levers of executive power.
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The Revolving Door
Despite its rock-bottom wages, Wal-Mart has extraordinarily high labor costs. Because employees don’t stay, the company must constantly recruit and train replacements—a costly process. Nearly threefourths of its employees quit in their first year, and the company-wide turnover rate for its 1.3 million workers is 50% each year.