When to Ignore Your Turnover

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47% is high, but like you said, it all depends on the circumstances. Good luck!

Suzanne Lucas of PA 3:13PM August 23, 2008

Thank you, and you are correct on the data audit comment. I am the facility manager who initiated this discourse and we have operations audits and a manager's competency review. The problem is when you look at it from the angle of percentages, it looks on the whole like we have a mid year turnover rate of 47%, but other extenuating circumstances might be causing this, such as drive time to and from work (location)...training, demographics for this locale, etc. So you have confirmed my thoughts that on the surface it may look bad but not necessarily that percentages are what we should be looking at. We have made this a priority and have instituted a focus group with associates to help stem this tide, but it always becomes a finger pointing session and a laundry list of what freebies we can give away for showing up to work, and we already have a pretty lax attendance point rate which seems to be the biggest factor in turnover for our site.

Thank you

Kevin Leslie of IN 9:09AM August 22, 2008

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