Boomerang Employee
A worker who leaves an employer and is later rehired by that same employer. Once a red flag, now a mainstream hiring channel.
Full definition of Boomerang Employee →:: COMPARE ::
Boomerang employeevsInternal transfer
The short answer
Both are known quantities. But the boomerang costs the firm a full exit and a full rehire — recruitment, notice, lost knowledge, onboarding — to end up roughly where it started.
Side by side
| Aspect | Boomerang employee | Internal transfer |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to employer | Two transactions | One |
| Knowledge retained | Partly | Fully |
| Pay outcome | Often higher | Usually modest |
| Signals | A retention failure | Normal movement |
What each one means
Internal transfer
The contrast above sets out how Internal transfer differs from Boomerang Employee on the points that actually matter.