From 200% Turnover
to Zero in Four months

A 250-person food manufacturer was losing production employees faster than they could replace them. The complaint from leadership was direct: "We have high turnover and we can't figure out why." What they hadn't calculated was the full cost. The production department was running at 200% annual turnover — meaning the average employee was replaced twice a year. The money flowing out through onboarding, lost production, and constant retraining had never been put on paper.

A deep operational analysis identified several interconnected root causes. The existing incentive system was structured in a way that gave employees no reason to stay or improve — it wasn't working. Management practices at the floor level were compounding the problem. There were additional contributing factors specific to how the department operated day to day.

3 changes were made during our engagement

Employee turnover declined progressively over four months following implementation, dropping from 200% to 0% in the month of April.