employee turnover
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3.3
- noun
- /ɪmˈplɔɪiː ˈtɜrnˌoʊvər/
:
rotación de empleados
- It has been estimated that the cost of employee turnover in America is 1.7 trillion dollars annually.
- reduce employee turnover
Examples
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The employee turnover percentage has been increasing for two periods.
Academic text (1992) -
Relevant clients' characteristics include employee turnover rate and financial compensation compared to those of their industry peers.
Academic text (2004) -
High employee turnover and limited food safety knowledge are the pertinent issues here.
Academic text (2005) -
When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right.
Blog text (26) -
Ford's goals were to reduce employee turnover, increase productivity, and create a massive new market for his cars.
Academic text (2009) -
Like most care facilities for the elderly, the Arcadia had a high rate of employee turnover.
Fiction book (2001) -
The executives cited employee turnover as a major concern in food safety today, along with the lack of food safety knowledge among consumers and improper holding temperatures.
Academic text (2005) -
Rising employee turnover rates, a consequence of both casualization and poor morale, further discourage expensive developmental training programs.
Academic text (2003) -
According to the respondents in the survey, the top three issues facing the grocery industry today are 1) employee turnover (n = 21), 2) lack of food safety knowledge by consumers (n = 13), and 3) improper holding temperatures (n = 12).
Academic text (2005) -
The annual rate of employee turnover in department stores and restaurants routinely tops 100%.
Synonyms
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4.2
The rate at which employees leave and are replaced in a company
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4.0
How quickly workers leave a company and new workers replace them
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4.6
A situation in a workplace where people keep leaving and being replaced
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6.0
The number of people who leave or die from a group over time
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6.7
How quickly the size of a group becomes smaller over time
Staff often leave and new staff replace them in a workplace
A rapid loss of skilled employees from a company or organization
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'employee' (workers) combined with 'turnover' (rate of leaving/replacement) yields the rate at which employees leave and are replaced. This workplace compound follows normal noun + noun composition and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun employee turnover comes from the image of workers turning over like objects on a moving belt: some leave and others take their place. So, it means 'how often employees leave a company and are replaced'.