Welcome Boomerang Employees Back in Style

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you
by  our friends at Kronos ,
a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions.
Both Fortune Magazine and the Great Place to Work Institute have named Kronos a
best workplace for Millennials for a second year in a row .
Congratulations to them! Enjoy the article.)

I recently had the opportunity to interview Kronos CEO Aron
Ain about his book, “WorkInspired:
Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work” and his journey of
transforming the company into a billion dollar business. I hope you’ll take the
time to check out the webcast because I really enjoyed the conversation.

In discussing the culture of Kronos with Ain, one of the
things he likes to talk about are boomerang employees. He’s very open about
letting employees spread their wings and listen to other opportunities. He’s
also comfortable with the Kronos culture and work environment to let exiting
employees know that they’re welcome back at any time.

This isn’t something new at Kronos. I’ve been working with the company for years and this has always been a part of who they are. I know many organizations are apprehensive about rehiring employees. And only because of the challenges in today’s labor market are they reconsidering that point-of-view.

But today’s Time Well Spent cartoon reminded me of the
conversations I’ve had with Ain and Joyce
Maroney, executive director at The Workforce Institute, about Kronos’ views
on boomerang employees. In fact, did you know that Kronos
promotes the boomerang trend on their website? And while your organization
might not want to dedicate a page to boomerang employees, does your company
include anywhere in their recruitment marketing that they encourage former
employees to reapply?

The other thing that today’s Time Well Spent reminded
me of is that we need to make orientation and onboarding more of a celebration.
Often when employees leave, the company or the employee’s department throws
them a nice party or takes the departing employee out to lunch. Sometimes the
exiting employee is given a gift. Do new employees get the same? It would send
a huge message if new hires got the same gifts and parties that exiting
employees do. Just something to think about.

A lot of great employees leave our companies for no fault of
the organization. And sometimes they regret those decisions. Organizations have
the opportunity to leave the door open. The question becomes, will they do it.

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