With employer-paid training, workers have the potential to become more productive not only in their present employment but also in any number of jobs with different employers  To increase the productivity of their workforce, many firms are planning to maintain or even increase their investments in worker training  But some training experts object that if a trained worker is hired away by another firm, the employer that paid for the training has merely subsidized a competitor
They note that such hiring has been on the rise in recent years
Research shows that workers whose training is wholly or partially subsidized by their employer tend to get at least as much training as do workers who pay for all their own training.