Employees who have left companies are changing their mind. According to a recent study over a quarter of “new hires” are actually rehires. The massive employment exodus of the great recession is giving way to boomerang employees finding their way back to original employers. Angela Jackson told Stephanie Vozza in Fast Company,
“People often leave a job because there’s an opportunity that’s too good to turn down, or they have a life season, like I had, and need to step away from work. The same employees might become homesick for a culture that they’ve left and have discovered that maybe the grass wasn’t as green as they thought. Or that the priority of the pay, or the title, or the opportunity they were chasing didn’t outweigh their coworker relationships or the care that they felt in a previous workplace. There’s all kinds of reasons people move around and return, but I think [boomerang employees] are an overlooked workforce.”
Jackson notes that when employees come back it underscores to all team members that they are in a winning workplace. “Their return signals to current employees that the company is a place worth coming back to, reinforcing a culture of mutual respect and growth.”
