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What is employee turnover?

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Question added by Abdul Samad Nadeem Malik , Business Support Officer , Thimar Al Jazirah - 3M ESPE
Date Posted: 2014/04/20
Tomasz Modrzejewski
by Tomasz Modrzejewski , Python Developer , Freelancer

Job rotation involves changing the scheduled job identified by selected employees or groups of employees. The purpose of changing positions is primarily to enable employees already expanding their skills and gain new experiences.

Natasha Khan
by Natasha Khan , Assistant Manager , Publishing Company – Coventry

Employee turnover is the process of replacing one worker with another for any reason. A turnover rate is the percentage of employees that a company must replace within a given time period.

Ahmed Sultan
by Ahmed Sultan , Assistant Manager , Motaaz Almotameez

When employees leave a company and have to be replaced, that's called turnover. A certain amount of turnover is unavoidable, but too much can ruin a company.

Mohammad Rehan Azim
by Mohammad Rehan Azim , Management, Tender Analysis, Tender Specialist, Dealing in Medical and Pharmaceutial , Thimar Al Jazirah Co.

The ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers

Enas Maraqa
by Enas Maraqa , Projects manager , Munir Sukhtian Group

number of employees who filled the same position in a given time , if this turnover is high, it means that there is something wrong in the firm and it needs to be fixed, since the employees are leaving it without second guessing

Ahmad Alhusainy
by Ahmad Alhusainy , Customer Service , National Bank Of Kuwait - Nbk

It is the reasons which lead to Employee turnover, as in leave, in Management there are many aspects of turnover, and that is financially as in he got better offer, or he isn't paid good enough, problems with his line manager in which could result into turnover, job describtion is vague in which what his ob suppose to be isn't clear and makes him disappointed, there is no challenge for employee, there is no challenge for employee, or relative being sick, or mother need to time to raise her new born baby and so on from reasons of leaving work.

Syed Hussaini
by Syed Hussaini , Senior Design engineer , private

In my view the answer to this question is just like a simple calculation as how much earned and how much lossed, similarily employees turnover seems to be working in the same manner by its paradigm.

Muzammil Ahmed
by Muzammil Ahmed , Secretary cum document controller , United technoligies of electric substations and switchgears Co.

Employee turnover is the rate at which an employer gains and loses employees.

Mukkaram Siddique
by Mukkaram Siddique , Finance, Management & Stocks , Amazon Foods Saudi Arabia

The rate at which employees leave the organization.

In some systems, it gives average of joining and leaving employees.

Divyesh Patel
by Divyesh Patel , Assistant Professional Officer- Treasury , City Of Cape Town

Employee turnover refers to the proportion of employees who leave an organisation over a set period (often on a year-on-year basis), expressed as a percentage of total workforce numbers.

 

There are two general types of turnover:

 

  1. Voluntary turnover is when the employee chooses to leave for whatever reason.

  2. Involuntary turnover is caused by layoffs and similar actions where the decision for an employee to leave is made by the company and not the employee.

 

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