Getting Out While The Getting's Good

March, 1977

According to a recent survey by the Administrative Management Society, 14 percent of all office employees left their jobs last year. The turnover rate was highest (18 percent) for hourly employees and only slightly lower (nine percent) for management-level employees. The Great American Game of Musical Jobs has slowed down in the past few years (down from 21 percent in 1973 to 14 percent in 1976), but the chances are still about one out of ten that you will leave your place of employment this yea...