WotD: turnover

[muckefuck]

1. die Fluktuation
2. het verloop
3. la rotación
4. la rotació
5. la rotation
6. y trosiant
7. an t-athrúchán, an iomlaid
8. fluktuacja, rotacja
9. 노동이동 (勞動移動)
10. 人事變動 rénshìbiàndòng

Notes: 3. According to some WordReference Spanish Forum discussions, rotación properly refers to turnover internal to a company and the term for employee turnover generally is movimiento (de personal), but rotación is widely used for both.

Comments

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

In American corporatespeak, we use the term "attrition". Sometimes when a "hiring freeze" is in place, positions vacated through attrition are explicitly exempted. (That is, you can replace someone who leaves, but you can't ask for any "new" positions.)

[anicca-anicca.livejournal.com]

Hiring freeze would be Einstellungsstopp, btw. Not that you asked.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation!

That's not a usage of the word I had encountered before, I think.

I must say that "attrition" sounds a bit menacing to me - as if they are somehow making people leave by grinding down their will to stay or something. ("Rausekeln" would be a good equivalent?) I suppose the term sounds more neutral if you grow up with it?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

If anything, "attrition" suggests extreme passivity to me: you can't be arsed to figure out which workers are good and which aren't, so you allow the best and the brightest to move on and keep the deadwood.