Employee Turnover at Red Hat
Contributions to staff retention at Red Hat
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About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. We hire creative, passionate people who are ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problem...
What is "Avoidable" turnover?
Employee retention at Red Hat very similar compared to other similar companies. While retention is impacted by many factors. A lot of those factors are outside the control of the company. For example, factors like company size, industry, or required skills cannot be easily changed. Red Hat has an employee retention rate that is comparable to others with the same fixed attributes. Which suggests they may not be able to do much to change how long workers stay with them.
What is driving turnover at Red Hat?
Employee turnover at Red Hat is primarily driven by in-demand employee skills and employee seniority. The skills and experience required for many positions at this company are not in high demand. Employee turnover differs significantly between employee groups with different skills sets. Employees with skills that are in hight demand, like software engineering, typically stay with a company for less time than employees in, say, operations or finance. Their employees have more years of experience than average. The employees with the least experience leave the company more frequently than the employees with the most experience. There are a few reasons why this might be the case. First, junior employees may be more likely to feel unhappy in their job and be eager to find a new one. Finally, junior employees may have less opportunity to have an impact on the company, which could lead to feelings of frustration and unhappiness.
Methodology
The numbers reported here are based on statistical analysis of publicly available employment data of current and past employees of the company. We determine mean tenure based on how long past employees have stayed at the company and how long current employees have been employed. We determine the annual turnover percentage as (1/tenure * 100). We analyse a sample of the employees at a company. We make an effort to sample in a representative way but some bias is unavoidable. Some types of employees may be overrepresented in our sample based on their job, their online activity, and their geographic location. We expect our number to have a confidence interval of approximately 1 year. In other words, if the mean tenure reported is 4 years, the true value lies between 3 and 5 with 98% confidence. Similarly if the average turnover reported is 20% we expect the true value to be between 15% and 25%.
Disclaimer
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