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It means that a location that has 1000 employees will cycle though 1500 employees in a year (or whatever length of time the cycle is measured for. Some employees may stay for years, others may not make it past weeks. It means that over a year, you will need to hire a lot more employees than that actual number working at any one time to keep those numbers up.

Say you have 1000 employees with 200 of them leaving every month. Over a year, you would have to hire 2400 employees to keep that number of active employees at 1000.

OTOH, I used to think some of the stories about washroom visits being monitored were mostly stories. Sadly, one acquaintance of mine has a son who started working for Amazon a while back and says that is quite a bit of truth in both the turnover and monitoring. Of the ~740 employees who were there when he was hired, ~180 remain, the other 560 have been replaced, often multiple times.

One of the office workers whom he was friends hung in through her pregnancy and complaints about her using the washroom too often before going on maternity/parental leave. She spent the last 10 weeks of her leave looking for another job (the first 40 weeks (15 weeks maternity and 25 weeks parental) were devoted to taking care of their daughter, her spouse took 5 weeks of the 40 weeks standard parental leave to stay home and help her recover from the birth). Quick explanation for non-Canadians, the birth parent gets 15 weeks maternity leave, the parents get 40 weeks of standard parental leave to split with a maximum of 35 weeks for one parent. There is also an extended parental leave which pays less. Her new job pays more than Amazon did and management has much lighter handed management style.