Akademik

(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.

• "Gensler's motivation and retention efforts have yielded impressive results... 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," [i]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