How to Manage Employee Turnover: Making Job Transitions Easier for Everyone

Employee turnover and how to reduce it is often one of the biggest challenges we face in HR. However, it’s a fact of life that employees will leave one day, and it’s something that HR leaders need to deal with in the right way.

Whether employees are leaving by choice or through layoffs, it’s important to make the leaving process as positive an experience as possible. Not only will this help with the transition, but it’ll also help protect existing employees and the leavers themselves, who may even return to the company one day.

In this episode of HR Unplugged, Head of HR Anita Grantham, and Vanessa Brulotte, HR Business Partner, share insights and advice on how to make leaving a better experience, what to do about low performers, and how to handle layoffs the right way.

Key Moments:

• Why you should set turnover targets by department
• How to get ahead of turnover
• Analyzing the reasons why people leave
• Why you shouldn’t try to stop employees who want to leave
• What you can do to reduce turnover
• Why you should find a successor
• How to approach layoffs