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2. Casey Burgat has the data on the House offices with the highest and lowest staff turnover last year. My experience has been that there have been very effective members who nevertheless had terrible reputations for how they treated their staff, and plenty of ineffective members who were easy to work for. But overall, high staff turnover is definitely a warning sign that there’s something wrong with the boss.
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