{
  "rogueId": "hr.involuntary_turnover_rate",
  "slug": "involuntary_turnover_rate",
  "domain": "hr",
  "defaultLabel": "Involuntary Turnover Rate",
  "description": "Annualized rate of company-initiated separations as a percentage of average headcount. Complement to `hr.voluntary_turnover_rate`; together they form the total turnover picture per the Mercer US Turnover Survey methodology. Common pitfall: lumping one-time RIFs into the steady-state rate, which makes the trend unreadable. Best practice is to report steady-state involuntary turnover and call out any RIF events separately in `hr.board_actions` with the headcount delta.",
  "fieldType": "percentage",
  "unit": "%",
  "maturity": "general",
  "suggestedForStages": [
    "seriesA",
    "seriesB",
    "seriesC",
    "public"
  ],
  "defaultOwningFunctions": [
    "HR"
  ],
  "stageRelevance": {
    "seriesA": "recommended",
    "seriesB": "recommended",
    "seriesC": "recommended",
    "public": "recommended"
  },
  "definitionSource": {
    "tier": "published",
    "sourceName": "Mercer US Turnover Survey 2025",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.imercer.com/articleinsights/workforce-turnover-trends",
    "sectionRef": "Involuntary Turnover",
    "publicationDate": "2025-03-01",
    "attributionNotice": null
  },
  "formula": "Involuntary Turnover Rate (annualized) = (Terminations in period / Average Headcount in period) × (12 / months in period) × 100. Convention: exclude announced RIF events from the steady-state series; report them separately with headcount delta. Per Mercer US Turnover Survey methodology.",
  "whyItMatters": "A read on performance-management cadence and any active restructuring. Sustained near-zero raises questions about management discipline; sustained-elevated raises questions about hiring quality or strategy thrash.",
  "interpretationGuidance": "US all-industry total turnover historically clusters in the 18–25% annualized range per Mercer US Turnover Survey 2025 (§Total Turnover); involuntary typically represents 4–8% of that total (verify exact splits against the cited report — distributions vary by industry). Companies with very low involuntary rates (<2% annualized) often have buried under-performers; companies above ~8% steady-state typically have a hiring or onboarding-quality issue (industry folk-wisdom on the upper bound, not citation-grade).",
  "relatedKpiIds": [
    "hr.terminations",
    "hr.performance_watch_count",
    "hr.voluntary_turnover_rate",
    "hr.talent_challenges"
  ]
}