HR & People
Average Tenure aliases: average length of service, ALOS
How long employees have typically been with the company.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
Mean versus median is one fork, tenure is right-skewed, so they can differ by years.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: SHRM · BLS Employee Tenure Summary