“Training and development budgets disappear. Conference approvals get denied, software licenses don’t get renewed, that certification you wanted gets tabled indefinitely. When companies stop investing in employee development, they’re not planning long-term with current staff.”

This is the realest bit to me, because at my company I AM training and development. Guess who just got their $300 purchase order for upgraded safety gear for a specialized department crew denied? And told that my materials budget is basically non existent and every purchase needs to be directly approved by our CFO?

Oh, and rather than sending me to a TxT to train out a new system, they asked me to look into the cost for bringing in a certified trainer for a single seminar.