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Well, a little bit — but not much.
If you’re unfamiliar with the term “boomerang employee,” it means someone who leaves an organization and eventually returns, I.e. “boomerangs” back. According to some LinkedIn data, this usually takes four years to happen. So, WorkLife went and wrote an article based on some Gartner research saying 35% of a 3,000-employee set would, indeed, boomerang back into an old role.
You want to think there’s a trend here, but as you get deeper into the story, basically it’s mostly about people who go into the private sector returning to government work, which tends to be more stable and have consistent raises and good benefits. Win-win-win. Sometimes, I honestly think the only employer in 25 years will be (a) the government and (b) five or six mega companies that conquered automation. I hope I’m wrong.
Boomerang Employees are a cool concept, though, because theoretically they already know your culture and processes, but they left for a bit, so they have a new sense of ways things can get done — that might, in some ways, be…
