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turnover

turnover

40 4.2
The rate at which employees leave and are replaced in a company
  • noun
  • /ˈtɜrnˌoʊvər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : rotación de personal
  • The company struggles with high turnover due to lack of employee satisfaction.
  • turnover rate
  • high turnover
  • staff turnover

They have less turnover, higher levels of engagement.

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Examples

  • Because of the war, a high turnover of domestic employees had begun.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Second, he states that the United States has higher rates of turnover than other industrialized countries.

    Academic text (1993)
  • And it's the big name that people are kind of putting on this massive job turnover situation going on in this country.

  • But the turnover here is normally two weeks.

  • Here are the figures on staff turnover.

  • Plus, over the years, there's been a big turnover in personnel.

  • The cost of external staff turnover to patient care continues to garner significant interest.

    Academic text (2015)
  • As you know, we've been very, very concerned about turnover and worker morale for several years.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Last year, for firms our size or larger, the average turnover rate among associates was twenty-eight percent.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Our nursing staff of over 3,000 handles a turnover of approximately 90,000 patients a year.

Synonyms

turnover rate
vsturnover
  • Specialized
5 4.0

How quickly workers leave a company and new workers replace them

is the general label for that staff leaving and replacement rate
churn
vsturnover
  • Specialized
3 5.1

The rate at which people stop using a product or service

is specific to staff leaving and replacement in workplaces rather than broader systems
employee turnover
vsturnover
1 3.3

How quickly workers leave a company and new ones replace them

applies to any workforce not limited to one company

Antonyms

363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

23 4.2

Keeping something so you still have it

Compounds

turnover rate
  • Specialized
5 4.0

How quickly workers leave a company and new workers replace them

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How quickly workers leave a company and new ones replace them

How Fast

collapse
350 4.1
exodus
45 7.2
attrition rate
  • Specialized
2 6.0
turnover
  • Specialized
40 4.2
stability
363 3.1

Surface Forms

turnover singular
turnovers plural

Morphology

turnover = turn (semi-transparent) = over + turn

The HR sense derives metaphorically from 'turn over' (people turning over/being replaced), but the specialized notion of a rate/statistic is less directly inferable for learners. [Postprocessing: moved 'over' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Turnover comes from the words turn + over, which suggest people 'turn over' when they leave and are replaced. So 'employee turnover' is the rate at which staff leave and new staff take their place.