attrition

The company plans to cut the workforce through natural attrition, a reduction of positions, divestment, outsourcing, and redundancies.

The grueling attrition produced surprises, however, like Magdeleine Vallieries, a Canadian professional who paid for her own plane ticket to Rwanda, and triumphed in the women’s elite race by charging away from the tired favorites.

And newcomer Revelio Labs uses figures from networking platforms to get readings on measures including employment, salaries, hiring and attrition.

In its August economic update, the Federal Reserve observed that some employers were “reducing head counts through attrition—encouraged, at times, by return-to-office policies.”

That natural attrition is slowing because more workers, hamstrung by declining job openings and spooked by fears of an economic downturn, are staying put.