Workforce structure & cost

Spans, layers and spend

Voluntary turnover is 11.6%, down 1.7 points in a year. Good news on the surface — and the wrong place to stop. Here’s how Crunchr lets you keep pulling the thread.

✦ AI summary

Headcount and workforce cost have grown steadily at around 2%, while sales revenue swings between −5% and +25%, decoupled from people investment.

Start with the definition

Make sure everyone is looking at the same number.

Most “turnover is up” conversations stall on whether it’s measuring leavers, regrettable losses, or first-year exits. Crunchr makes the definition explicit — voluntary turnover is leavers divided by average headcount, rolled over 12 months and annualised.

Same formula, same time window, same filter scope — whatever the room.

Then look at where it’s moving

The headline is the average of very different stories.

The Impact tab surfaces the departments and locations that have shifted most year-over-year. Customer Support +3.5 and Legal +3.0 are pulling the company average up. Meanwhile HR -7.1 and Manufacturing -3.7 have come down sharply.

A 1.7-point company-wide drop hides a lot of motion underneath it.

Drill into the drivers

Some segments push the average up because they’re acute, not because they’re large.

The Drivers tab combines dimensions — location, department, business unit — to find the groups contributing most to a higher company-wide turnover.

Legal in the Consumer business unit is just 34 people, running at 35%. Asia, Customer Support and Marketing are each two to three points above the company average across much larger populations.