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Median tenure (continuous service, months)
Median across the population of organization continuous-service tenure, in whole calendar months.
How it’s computed
MEDIAN(continuous_service_tenure_months)
What the evidence shows
Evidence (effect sizes, priors, validity) is syncing from Principia.
Run it on your data
This metric is computed in the People Analytics Toolbox on your own numbers. See pricing — posted, no quotes.
sources: toolbox:metrics-catalog
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“(8)According to a study by Culture Amp on retention intention at Box, a worker’s pay or relationship with his boss matters far less than how connected the worker feels to his team. (9) Corporate Culture’s impact on Attrition Research have shown that there is a relationship…”
— Predictive HR Analyticsmatch 53%
“6 in 10 employees indicate that they know what is expected of them at work, but if that ratio can be increased to 8 in 10, your business can achieve a 14% reduction in staff turnover and a 7% increase in productivity. (6) Engagement A study by Praful Tickoo, the head of people…”
— People Analytics Text Mining with Rmatch 51%
“Having employee tenure in years is useful, and yet you can see that almost every employee has a different tenure. If you were to count now by column E, you would not get a useful table or graph. In this example, what you want to do is count those employees with tenure less than…”
— People Analytics For Dummiesmatch 50%
Resources: Predictive HR Analytics · People Analytics Text Mining with R · People Analytics For Dummies