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Staff turnover

Labour turnover is the rate at which staff leave an organisation. There are different methods for measuring staff turnover, including the wastage index or standard formula, the resignation rate, the stability rate and the survival rate.

Benchmarking the employer's total turnover rate and voluntary resignation rate against those of similar employers can help the employer to establish whether the level of turnover is acceptable, too high or too low.

Employers need to analyse the underlying reasons for staff departures and, if the departure rates are too high, establish a retention strategy.


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    A quarter of employees plan to leave their jobs this year, survey reveals

    by Personnel Today 1 Jun 2010
    by Personnel Today 1 Jun 2010

    Nearly a quarter of UK employees plan to leave their job in the next 12 months, a survey of 4,000...

    • HR practice
    • HR strategy
    • Recruitment & retention

    Staff turnover: are employers managing it correctly?

    by Personnel Today 20 May 2010
    by Personnel Today 20 May 2010

    Staff turnover is a notoriously complex issue for HR professionals to tackle. Gone are the days when employers could simply...

    • HR transformation
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    • Agency workers

    IBM crowd sourcing could see employed workforce shrink by three quarters

    by Louisa Peacock 23 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 23 Apr 2010

    Multinational firms saddled with huge people costs are considering downsizing their permanent workforce and hiring sub-contractors on a scale never...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Business groups angered at Conservative pledge to scrap default retirement age

    by Louisa Peacock 13 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 13 Apr 2010

    The Conservative pledge to “abolish the default retirement age (DRA)” entirely – going one step further than the government which...

    • Employee relations
    • Employee communications
    • HR practice

    Rate your employer website launches

    by Personnel Today 28 Sep 2009
    by Personnel Today 28 Sep 2009

    A free website aimed at gathering honest and anonymous views from employees about their employer has been launched.Employerinformation. co.uk rates...

    • HR practice
    • HR strategy
    • Employer branding

    Social work recruitment crisis must be tackled

    by Gillian Hibberd 6 Jul 2009
    by Gillian Hibberd 6 Jul 2009

    By Gill Hibberd, president of the Public Sector People Managers' Association

    • Employee relations
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    • Recruitment & retention

    How I made a difference: Heather James, HR director, Vantis

    by Personnel Today 17 Jun 2009
    by Personnel Today 17 Jun 2009

    Managing internal capacity in a downturn, the main aim is to retain people and minimise the risk to jobs. Vantis...

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    Government threatens to cut benefits to alcoholics

    by Louisa Peacock 14 Apr 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 14 Apr 2009

    The government has threatened to deprive alcoholics of their basic benefits unless they sober up and go back to work,...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Latest News
    • Business performance

    Judge orders stockbroker firm to stop poaching staff

    by Guy Logan 3 Apr 2009
    by Guy Logan 3 Apr 2009

    A High Court judge yesterday ordered a leading London stockbroker to stop poaching its rival’s staff. US-owned BGC was told...

    • Economics, government & business
    • HR practice
    • Labour market

    End to VAT concession piles on pressure at the worst possible time

    by Anne Fairweather 2 Apr 2009
    by Anne Fairweather 2 Apr 2009

    Until the beginning of this month, recruitment agencies did not need to charge VAT on the wages of temporary workers...

    • Latest News
    • HR practice
    • Graduates

    Microsoft uses dating software to retain high-flyers

    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009

    Microsoft’s learning and development chief has halved turnover of talented employees by matching them to experienced mentors using “dating agency”...

    • Civil Service
    • Economics, government & business
    • Latest News

    Civil Service back office savings ‘very difficult’

    by Guy Logan 26 Mar 2009
    by Guy Logan 26 Mar 2009

    The disparity between pay and recruitment processes across Civil Service HR will make it “very difficult” to create shared service...

    • Careers in HR
    • HR practice
    • HR strategy

    Debt collection: the school of hard knocks

    by Virginia Matthews 18 Feb 2009
    by Virginia Matthews 18 Feb 2009

    Debt collection is a booming industry in this recession-gripped economy, but HR has its work cut out improving the brutal image of the sector, recruiting the right people and training staff to comply with government calls for a more compassionate approach to debtors.

    • Economics, government & business
    • Latest News
    • Business performance

    Graduate vacancies to fall 5% in 2009

    by Lindsay Clark 11 Feb 2009
    by Lindsay Clark 11 Feb 2009

    Graduate vacancies will drop by 5.4% in 2009, the first fall since 2003, according to forecasts from the Association of...

    • Latest News
    • Employment law
    • HR practice

    ‘Scrooge’ solicitor’s Christmas sack suggestion provokes fury

    by Greg Pitcher 17 Nov 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 17 Nov 2008

    A legal expert has provoked fury by advising employers to make redundancies on Christmas Eve.Mark Bestley, partner at Cheshire law...

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