Why people leave

The obvious reasons why people leave could be: job satisfaction, better pay elsewhere, no room for growth.

For involuntary offboardings, it could be: poor performance, misconduct, or harassment.

Other reasons that are not so obvious are:

1. Poor hiring practices - ill-matched candidates, misaligned hires.

2. Poor onboarding - not setting them up for success.

3. Poor employee-manager relationship - No psychological safety, distrust, lack of management or leadership support.

4. Poor people partnership - Misalignment between the People team and other teams across the business will result in unequal or inequitable employee experiences.

Turnover is always a lagging indicator and it's costly to replace and train new hires. It's always worth it to look under the hood to understand what else could be going on.