Cost of Employee Turnover: Your Complete Guide to Calculating What Every Exit Really Costs Most companies know what a resignation feels like. Far fewer know what it costs. The resignation letter arrives, a manager sighs, a replacement is hired in a few weeks, and life goes on. Yet that one exit quietly drew on a dozen budgets: the vacancy, the overtime, the hiring fee, the interview hours, the training and the months before the new person works at full speed. A plant manager