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Boomerang employeevsInternal transfer

The short answer

Both are known quantities. But the boomerang costs the firm a full exit and a full rehire — recruitment, notice, lost knowledge, onboarding — to end up roughly where it started.

Side by side

AspectBoomerang employeeInternal transfer
Cost to employerTwo transactionsOne
Knowledge retainedPartlyFully
Pay outcomeOften higherUsually modest
SignalsA retention failureNormal movement

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