KPI: Employee Turnover Graph

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Creating a Line Graph in Excel that Reflects Your Employee Turnover Rate
In his last KPI tip, Tom Stewart of Cleaning Business Today showed how to create an Excel spreadsheet that reflects your turnover rate. In this tip, Tom demonstrates how to use the data from that spreadsheet to create a simple graph. 

FAQs

Q: What is employee turnover trends?

A: Employee turnover trends is a management measure that helps a residential cleaning company understand performance, compare periods, and make better operating decisions.

Q: How do you calculate employee turnover trends?

A: Use consistent data from the same reporting period, apply the formula described in the article, and document which revenue, clients, jobs, or employees are included so results remain comparable.

Q: Why does employee turnover trends matter to a cleaning business?

A: It connects day-to-day activity to profitability, capacity, retention, or growth and can reveal problems before they become visible in the financial statements.

Q: How often should a cleaning company review this KPI?

A: Review it at least monthly. High-velocity measures such as revenue, leads, jobs, labor, and staffing may also need weekly monitoring.

Q: What should owners do when this KPI worsens?

A: Confirm the data first, identify the operational driver behind the change, assign one corrective action to an owner, and monitor the next several reporting periods before drawing conclusions.

Author

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    Tom Stewart is a CEO and industry thought leader focused on scaling residential cleaning businesses through strategy, systems, and leadership development, translating complex concepts into actionable frameworks. With his wife Janice Stewart, he co-owns Castle Keepers, the first company to achieve CIMS certification. Tom is the founder and CEO of MaidCentral Software, the leading business management platform for professional home cleaning companies in North America, and the founding editor and publisher of Cleaning Business Today. Learn more at TomStewart.com.

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