(BOOM.uh.rang)
n.
1. An employee who quits to take another job and later returns to the company. 2. An employee who is laid off and then rehired as a consultant or contract worker.
Example Citation:
- "Gensler's motivation and retention efforts have yielded impressive results... [I]ts 12 percent 'boomerang' rate—the percentage of employees who return to Gensler after leaving voluntarily—is one of the highest in the industry."
—"1997 awards for best business practices," The Business Journal - "One interesting phenomenon of workers in the last two categories is the boomerang-style contract worker. Many organizations are hiring the very highly skilled people they just downsized out of a job. These people then come back on a much more tenuous basis as contract workers in their areas of expertise."
—Donna G. Albrecht, "Reaching new heights," Workforce
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