talent drain
Best workers leaving
Talent drain is the departure of skilled workers from a place, industry, or organization.
The metaphor pictures valuable human resources flowing away like water.
Companies experience talent drain when competitors offer better pay; countries suffer it when professionals emigrate for opportunities elsewhere.
The tech talent drain to Silicon Valley hurt regional startups.
Also called brain drain.
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- emigrationLeaving homeland permanently
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- greener pasturesMore favorable circumstances elsewhere
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
loss · departure · migration · reverse migration · skilled · professionals · poaching · attrition · outflow · shortage · vacuum · depletion · skills gap · workforce · human capital · knowledge economy · retention · competition
- workplace issuesturnover, layoffs, understaffing, low morale, harassment
- unemploymentunemployment, unemployed, jobless, joblessness, unemployment rate
- corporate crisesbankruptcy filing, scandal, lawsuit, layoffs, data breach
- staffingstaffing, turnover rates, hiring, staffing firm, staffing agency
talent drainbrain gain
Influx of educated immigrants
talent acquisition · recruitment · talent pipeline · headhunting
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