Talent wars | 3 reasons to welcome back boomerang employees

Over the last few months, many employers have expressed difficulties with finding and recruiting the right talent. In fact, 2021 research from the CIPD found that one in four employers expect ‘hard-to-fill’ vacancies will increase in the next six months.

With today’s job market proving to be a challenging landscape for many employers, SHRM reported that some companies may consider tapping into a growing source of candidates to fix this problem. This source is boomerang employees.

Essentially, the website Elevate defines ‘boomerang’ employees as those team members who decide to leave a company but return at some point in the future. Data from LinkedIn, reported on by The Wall Street Journal, found that this source accounted for 4.5% of all new hires among organisations in 2021, a figure which was up from 3.9% in 2019.

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