Keywords
employee boomerang, employee retention, reemployment decisions
Abstract
It’s 4:45 PM on a Friday, you’re about to head home, and then your phone buzzes. You look down to see a text from a previous employee that hasn’t been in contact since departing several months ago (sans a LinkedIn request). He says he just wants to “catch up”, but you suspect another angle. Ten minutes into a coffee meeting the next week and you get it — he wants to come back to the company. A host of questions go through your mind: Is this normal? Why did you leave in the first place? Why do you want to come back? Will you perform the same?
Original Publication Citation
Harris, T. B., & Gardner, R. G. 2017, July 12. Boomerang employees: Should you welcome them back? LSE Business Review (online): http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/83537/
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Harris, Brad and Gardner, Richard G., "Boomerang Employees: Should You Welcome Them Back?" (2017). Faculty Publications. 9860.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9860
Document Type
Other
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
LSE Business Review
Language
English
College
Marriott School of Business
Department
Marketing
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