How often do people leave where you work?

How often do people leave where you work?

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VinceFox

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20,566 posts

171 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Found out a workmate is leaving this morning who's been here for donkeys and it dawned on me we have a very low turnover/leaving rate.

How often do people leave where you work?

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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One or two per year, but mainly due to retirement.

Only one person has left for another job elsewhere (voluntarily) in 12 years...

Davel

8,982 posts

257 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Very rarely here.

We value our team and they seem happy here.

Only six of us here though...

Edited by Davel on Monday 13th October 19:37

SkinnyP

1,411 posts

148 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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The month I joined my current employer we had 5 people leave out of an office of 20, consquently the CEO and a few other big dicks came over from the main office to interview us all and see what the problem was.

The problem was management, but nothing changed and people still drop off here and there. I'm hoping I'll be next in fact I am looking forward to the look on my managers face when I hand in my resignation, especially as I'm fully booked every single day until February and he'll have to find somewhere to put that work smile

Driver101

14,376 posts

120 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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About 320 employees and the turnover of staff has been between 10-15% per year over the last few years.

Too many jobs available and salaries going up all the time.

There is a lot of unhappy people too I will add.

thehammer

249 posts

133 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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40 in the last 6 months, company size is/was 300ish. Automotive engineering sector.

AndStilliRise

2,295 posts

115 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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I worked for Accenture once where the turnover rate was 40%.

These companies had a massive focus on recruitment in order to offset the number of people leaving. It was often the case you would never work with the same people on two different projects.


TIGA84

5,204 posts

230 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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We hired 74 people last year.

In the last year 76 people left.

Company size?

165.

Recruitment may not be for everyone it would seem.......

(We did have a few quite sizeable problems last year and offices closing/CEO's leaving etc so may not be typical.)

barker22

1,037 posts

166 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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A job I did back in 2006/7, after 3 years we wrote down the names of all the people that had left.....it came to 45!!!
Oh and the peak number of staff, was only 20. It is still suffering from a high turnover to this day, the management is the problem.

VinceFox

Original Poster:

20,566 posts

171 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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For reference, i'm in a team of about 12 now, we've had a couple of people retire and not be replaced, but this is the first time someone's left properly in a good ten years.

pherlopolus

2,087 posts

157 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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AndStilliRise said:
I worked for Accenture once where the turnover rate was 40%.

These companies had a massive focus on recruitment in order to offset the number of people leaving. It was often the case you would never work with the same people on two different projects.
I work for another large IT company, in the past 2 years I've not worked with the same team twice, thats about 15 projects all pre-sales. Some of the lifers come round a few times, but 90% of the team is new ie less than 6 months in the job, or from India.

I'm leaving in 3 weeks so will just add to the statistics I guess...

bogie

16,342 posts

271 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Around 5% normal attrition in our 1200 person company ...still thats 50 or 60 people per year ...so long as its not many from the same teams, its ok. If you lose a lot over a period of time in a particular area, it can be an issue

In most large organisations that seems about average, with ups and downs to cope with post acquisition clear out of dead wood and change of strategies...there are so many variables

I remember In the early 2000 post dot com boom, working for one of the "big 5" IT services companies, it shed 3-5000 per year and we didn't notice much ...its like a continuous flow in and out. You go there, get what you want, either carve a career for yourself or be one of those that moves on with a lot of experience......

ocrx8

867 posts

195 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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All the time. Staff turnover is very high. I now know why!

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Average staff member here has been here over a decade.

"New kid" has been here 18 months.

Sir Bagalot

6,463 posts

180 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Well, let's see now.

I've kept records for two months(ish) as I thought a lot of people were leaving. In the past 10 weeks 14 people have left. We have about 160 employees.

MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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High staff turnover where I work. The wages are dire so they tend to attract graduates who need something on their CV and leave for places that pay properly once they've got it. The only ones who stick around are some long-termers who are cruising to retirement, a small number whose skills aren't much in demand locally so can't move companies easily and, of course, the directors who are among the minority who are actually paid enough.

Edited by MitchT on Monday 13th October 13:36

CAFEDEAD

222 posts

114 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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AndStilliRise said:
I worked for Accenture once where the turnover rate was 40%.

These companies had a massive focus on recruitment in order to offset the number of people leaving. It was often the case you would never work with the same people on two different projects.
Doesn't seem too bad to me. I always worked to the principle that in IT you need to move on every two years or so to get decent pay rises (>30%). I'd probably have moved on quicker than usual with Accenture!

I went contracting in the end. It must be near enough impossible to keep a low turnover of good staff in IT.

I'm sure I read the median period staff were retained even at Google was between one and two years.

Edited by CAFEDEAD on Monday 13th October 13:36

laam999

538 posts

168 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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I've only been in my current place forbade year and around 1/3 of the staff have left, they only employ around 40 people but they don't seemed concerned with this huge staff turnover, which in turn concerns me.

Supernova190188

887 posts

138 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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company size about 300. I've been there 8.5 years and in that time over 1,100 have gone through the doors!

Sir Humphrey

387 posts

122 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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In a team of 11 we had 5 people go in one month earlier this year, one didn't have another job to go to, just resigned.