Acerta: “A quarter of employees who resigned or were given leave last year had not been with the company for a year” | Work

Of all open-ended contracts that were terminated in 2021, this happened within the year in 24.7 percent of the cases. This early departure happened just as often on their own initiative as on the initiative of the employer (30.9 percent each time). In about a third of the cases (34.4 percent) it concerned a departure by mutual agreement. The HR services company’s research is based on data from 260,000 employees at 40,000 companies.

Acerta notes that many employees leave again between seven and twelve months after taking up employment. This is a bad thing for companies, because new employees only really start to pay for the company after six months. “If you say goodbye to an employee within a year, even though the collaboration was intended to be sustainable, that is not a favorable investment of time and money, both for the individual and for the team,” says Hannelore Van Meldert of Acerta.

The current labor shortage does not help with the problem, emphasizes Van Meldert. “A tight labor market means that employers have long been happy that there are candidates for many positions at all. Due to the labor shortage, employees have much more confidence that they can start working elsewhere quickly if they want to,” it sounds.

According to Acerta, especially SMEs (small or medium-sized enterprises) have to deal with the rapid staff turnover. In companies with fewer than ten employees, more than thirty percent of terminated contracts are terminated within a year. In large companies this is 15 to 16 percent.