Tech Leavers Study

In the tech sector, unfair treatment is the most common factor in employee turnover, costing the industry $16 billion a year in replacement costs, a report from the Kapor Center for Social Impact and the Ford Foundation finds. Based on a survey of people who have left a job in a tech-related industry in the last three years, the report, Tech Leavers Study: A First-of-Its-Kind Analysis of Why People Voluntarily Left Jobs in Tech (27 pages, PDF), found that 37 percent of respondents cited unfairness or mistreatment as a major reason for leaving — including 40 percent of underrepresented men of color — compared with 22 percent who cited being recruited away. More...