--- name: attrition-risk-scorer description: "Scores individual employee or team attrition risk on a 0–100 scale across six weighted risk factors, identifies the top risk drivers, and produces prioritized retention interventions with expected impact and timing. Use when assessing flight risk for specific employees, reviewing a team or department for turnover exposure, or building a proactive retention plan from HR data." argument-hint: "[employee-profile] [risk-context]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Attrition Risk Scorer ## Purpose Convert employee profile data into a defensible attrition risk score with named drivers and specific retention actions — so People teams intervene on the right employees before resignation, not after. Replaces gut-feel flight-risk conversations with a repeatable, factor-weighted assessment. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Assess the attrition or flight risk of a specific employee - Review a team, department, or cohort for turnover exposure - Identify which high performers are most likely to leave - Build a retention plan or intervention list from HR data - Prioritize retention budget or stay conversations across a group - Explain why a particular employee is a resignation risk ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Tenure**: Time in role and time at company (in months or years) - **Role and level**: Job function and seniority band - **Performance rating**: Most recent rating on the org's scale (state the scale) - **Compensation vs. market**: Current pay relative to market benchmark (below / at / above, or percentage delta) - **Engagement score**: Latest survey/pulse score with the scale used - **Manager quality signal**: Manager effectiveness score, span of control, or 1:1 cadence - **Contextual flags** (optional): Recent reorg, promotion denial, internal transfer request, life event, or peer departures If a scale is not specified, assume a 1–5 scale for performance and engagement and state the assumption. If compensation benchmark is unavailable, flag it as an unscored factor rather than guessing. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Score the Six Risk Factors Assign each factor a 0–20 sub-score (higher = higher risk), then apply the weights below. Score conservatively — only push toward the high end when evidence is clear. **Factor 1 — Compensation Gap (weight 25%)** - Below market by 10%+: 15–20 (highest predictive weight for voluntary exits) - Below market by <10%: 8–14 - At market: 3–7 - Above market: 0–2 **Factor 2 — Engagement (weight 20%)** - Bottom quartile / declining trend: 15–20 - Below midpoint: 9–14 - At or above midpoint: 3–8 - Top quartile: 0–2 **Factor 3 — Manager Quality (weight 20%)** - Low manager score, wide span, or infrequent 1:1s: 14–20 ("people leave managers") - Mixed signals: 7–13 - Strong manager relationship: 0–6 **Factor 4 — Tenure Stage (weight 15%)** - 0–12 months (onboarding fragility) or 24–48 months (the "itch" window): 12–20 - 12–24 months: 6–11 - 48+ months with recent growth: 0–5 **Factor 5 — Performance vs. Recognition Fit (weight 10%)** - High performer, no recent promotion/comp movement: 14–20 (regretted-attrition zone) - High performer, recently recognized: 2–6 - Low performer disengaging: 8–14 (risk exists but often non-regretted) **Factor 6 — Contextual Flags (weight 10%)** - Active flags (promotion denial, reorg, peer departures, transfer request): 12–20 - One minor flag: 6–11 - None: 0–5 Compute the weighted total and normalize to a 0–100 score. ### Step 2: Assign a Risk Tier - **80–100 — Critical**: Likely evaluating options now. Intervene within 1–2 weeks. - **60–79 — High**: Meaningful flight risk. Intervene within 30 days. - **40–59 — Moderate**: Watchlist. Address in next review cycle. - **0–39 — Low**: Stable. Monitor at normal cadence. Flag **regretted attrition risk** separately when a Critical/High score coincides with a strong performance rating — these are the most costly to lose. ### Step 3: Identify the Top 3 Risk Drivers Rank the factors by their contribution to the total score. For each driver, write one sentence connecting the specific data point to the risk (e.g., "12% below market at 30 months tenure — the highest-leaving combination"). ### Step 4: Recommend Retention Interventions Provide 3–5 interventions, each mapped to a specific driver. For each: - **Action**: The concrete move (off-cycle adjustment, stretch project, manager reassignment, promotion timeline, stay conversation) - **Owner**: Who runs it (HRBP, direct manager, skip-level) - **Timing**: When it must happen given the tier - **Expected impact**: Which driver score it lowers and by roughly how much Prioritize actions that address the highest-weighted driver first. Do not recommend a comp adjustment if the driver is manager quality — match the intervention to the cause. ### Step 5: State Confidence and Data Gaps Note any unscored factors (e.g., missing benchmark), and state whether the score is high, medium, or low confidence based on data completeness. ## Output Format - **Structure**: Score summary up top, factor breakdown table, drivers, interventions, confidence note - **Length**: 500–800 words per employee (or a summary table plus per-person rows for a cohort) - **Format**: Score header + factor scoring table + ranked drivers list + intervention list - **Sections**: Risk Score & Tier → Six-Factor Breakdown (table) → Top 3 Drivers → Retention Interventions → Confidence & Data Gaps - **Tone**: People analytics specialist — evidence-based, direct, non-alarmist; names risk without dramatizing ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] All six factors are scored and weighted, and the total normalizes to 0–100 - [ ] The risk tier matches the numeric score band - [ ] Exactly three drivers are ranked by score contribution, each tied to a specific data point - [ ] Every intervention maps to a named driver — no generic "improve engagement" advice - [ ] Regretted-attrition risk is flagged when high risk coincides with high performance - [ ] Any missing input is disclosed as a data gap, not silently guessed ## Notes - Compensation gap and manager quality are the two strongest voluntary-exit predictors — weight your attention there first. - The 24–48 month tenure window is where many high performers begin looking; a Moderate score in that window deserves a proactive stay conversation. - Not all attrition is bad — separate regretted from non-regretted risk so retention spend goes to the people worth keeping. - For cohort runs, lead with a ranked table (name/role, score, tier, top driver) before the per-person detail, so the reader can triage at a glance. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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