Return employees are making up just over 2% of recent hires across Canada, according to data from LinkedIn’s Canada's Workforce Report.
The analysis - which ranked occupations that had at least 10,000 hires on average since 2015, and ranked them by their average returning hire rates from 2015 to 2023 (while removing student positions, internships and volunteer positions as these could be false positives) - found that the share of new hires who had previously worked at their employer reached 2.1% in 2023, compared to roughly 1.7% over the past eight years.
LinkedIn’s report suggested that this increase in returning workers may be due to a
skilled workers shortage in certain industries, including the tech sector.
While some people maintain the idea of returning to a former employer as ‘taboo’,
Natasha Andrews, safety business partner at Tacora Resources Inc., thinks otherwise.
“I see no reason for it’s taboo in the first place,” Natasha said via LinkedIn. “It’s easy for people to misunderstand motives or to think there’s negative attached with the employee or employer when someone leaves. When often, career moves are a result of timing and life circumstances.”
Likewise
Sweta Regmi, CEO at
Teachndo, credited this increase to staff being offered better salaries and job roles as a result of their newfound external experiences.
“They left due to salary and no promotion opportunity as internal staff,” Sweta said, “loyalty was punished”.
“Once they were external and got experience they applied as an external after years, and they got in again. Their title and salary fell on the upper band,” she concluded.
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