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David O'Bryant 
David O'Bryant
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Published Aug 23, 2016
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"Turnover" and "Attrition" are human resource terms that are often timesconfused. Employee turnover and attrition both occur when an employee leaves the company. Turnover , however, is from several different actions such as discharge, termination, resignation or abandonment. Attrition occurs when an employee retires or when the employer eliminates the position. The big difference between the two is that when turnover occurs, the company seeks someone to replace the employee. But in the case of attrition, the employer leaves that vacancy unfilled or eliminates that job role .
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Sergey Cleftsow
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This is a good clarification as many confuse turnover and attrition. For example, I have heard a statement that there should be some mandatory number of attrition in company otherwise there is something wrong. But this is nonsense of course. It is OK for turnover whereas attrition is always evil. Good job, Dave.
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Alexandra Malacu
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Seems that Linkedin itself confuses these terms. Here I'm referring to Linkedin Insights' definition "Attrition is defined as the number of professionals who departed the company in the past 12 months divided by the average number of employees during this period"
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Amie Njie
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Are these two terms interchangeable
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Jinkle Pasad
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Is attrition subset of turnover?
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Nibha Shakya
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Thank You David Sir. It clears me the difference. Please share if it is possible the ways to calculate it.
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