Editor Letter: Involuntary Turnover and Other Elephants in the Room

February 26, 2020 by Susanne Sclafane

As more and more insurers become technology companies that sell insurance, whether they call themselves InsurTechs or just insurance carriers, the whole group may face a problem already challenging the tech sector: employee turnover.

Online sources vary about whether technology or retail is actually the sector with the highest amount of turnover. A 2018 LinkedIn report puts technology on top with a 13.2 percent turnover rate, and retail closely behind at 13.0 percent, while financial services and insurance firms had a 10.8 percent rate.