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Humanity Working
Bonus Episode: The Retention Trap: Why Talent Flow Beats Talent Hoarding, Featuring Mark Peters
46 minutes Posted Aug 13, 2026 at 9:00 am.
Work beyond the knowledge-worker world.
Life at Butterball Farms.
How The Source supports employees.
Why stability comes before growth.
The business case for The Source.
Mark’s early lessons in empathy.
The Retention Trap
Building a talent ecosystem.
Why talent flow can be worth the investment.
The benefits cliff and iNexus.
Training people for better-paying work.
The Great Lakes model for talent flow.
Creating purpose through opportunity.
Resilient people, businesses, and communities.
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Mark Peters is CEO of Butterball Farms, a family-owned food manufacturing company where he has spent decades thinking differently about what it means to be an employer. He is also the founder of The Source, an organization that helps employees navigate challenges like transportation, childcare, healthcare, food insecurity, and other barriers that can make it difficult to stay in the workforce. His work focuses on building more resilient people, businesses, and communities, and his new book, T...