Amazon Managers Say They 'Hire to Fire' to Meet Internal Turnover Goal
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Amazon Managers Say They 'Hire to Fire' to Meet Internal Turnover Goal:
"We might hire people that we know we're going to fire, just to protect the rest of the team," one manager told Insider.
The practice is informally called "hire to fire," in which managers hire people, internally or externally, they intend to fire within a year, just to help meet their annual turnover target, called unregretted attrition (URA). A manager's URA target is the percentage of employees the company wouldn't regret seeing leave, one way or the other.
In a statement to Insider, Amazon's spokesperson denied that the company hired employees with the intention of firing them and said it did not use the phrase "hire to fire."
But the existence of the practice in at least some parts of the company shows how Amazon's system of requiring managers to hit a target attrition goal every year can foster controversial norms and practices.
Have any of my fellow Soylentils worked for a company that had a required attrition rate? If so, what did you think of it and did you see this solution occurring? Let us know in the comments.
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