Dear friend,
Lots of valuable inputs have already been effectively provided by our learned friends. Apart from the plus and minus of internal transfer of employees within the organization, I would like to state something from the employees' perspective.Though admittedly transfer is an incidence of service, is it whole-heartedly welcomed by all employees particularly in private sector? I am afraid that it is not.In my 32 years of State Govt service in Labour Department, I had the opportunity of serving in all the industrially concentrated cities of the State and my interaction with private sector employees, irrespective of the colour of their collars, shows that most of the people do not like transfer and want to stay put in the particular place of employment and even some of them prefer change of companies within that particular place to transfer out for obvious reasons.It is the prerogative of the management to decide who is to work where and when depending upon the exigencies of work and generally the Standing Orders and the letters of appointment empower the management to effect internal transfers. But I do believe that an individual employee's status and -personal hardships should not be simply brushed aside - would it be prudent to transfer a fitter working at chennai site to Gurgaon just because a branch site is there? So, transfer should not be a colourable exercise of power or victimisation. The benefits of transfer is generally manifold both to the employer and the employee depending upon the organization's size, multiplicity of locations, diverse employment ethnicity and the operational challenges faced and the employee's age and nature of job.