{"id":46746,"date":"2021-05-03T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factorialhr.com\/blog\/?p=46746"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:02:46","slug":"labour-turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factorialhr.co.uk\/blog\/labour-turnover\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Labour Turnover and How Do You Calculate It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

All businesses want to reduce their labour turnover. You want your people to be happy and productive<\/strong> and stay at your company for years to come.<\/p>\n

If you have high labour turnover, you’ll find yourself constantly recruiting, onboarding and training new employees. This can eat up time and money<\/strong> – to replace an employee on the average UK salary, it could cost up to \u00a312,000.<\/a><\/p>\n

So how do you reduce your employee turnover? The first step is to calculate labour turnover and your retention rate.<\/strong> Then, by analysing labour turnover, you’ll be able to identify any issues you have with retaining staff.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve identified any problems, you can address them to help you grow, develop and attract top talent.<\/strong> This might be through implementing training programmes,<\/strong> having better onboarding processes<\/strong> and drawing up better progression plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s dive into what staff turnover is and how you can calculate labour turnover.<\/p>\n

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