---
title: 'To Heck with Retention: 5 Reasons Turnover in Your SPD May Be a Good Thing'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/to-heck-with-retention-5-reasons-turnover-in-your-spd-may-be-a-good-thing'
show: 'Beyond Clean'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/beyond-clean'
published: '2022-01-06'
audio: 'https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/beyondclean/Article_074_To_Heck_With_Retention.mp3'
---

# To Heck with Retention: 5 Reasons Turnover in Your SPD May Be a Good Thing

written by Hank Balch

## Summary

In this episode of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch considers why employee retention may not be the best metric for measuring your department's success: -- "One of the unfortunate things that employee retention encourages is keeping the status quo in place. This metric or measurement does not account for the many good reasons that a department may experience a high degree of employee turnover. Here are five of the most persuasive examples of when and how low employee retention numbers are something to celebrate..."

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