Churn Rate

Published February 2000

The amount of change in a given facility or organization due to personnel relocation. Churn rate can either be calculated as the amount of floor space changed per year expressed as a percentage of the total amount of floor space, or the number of personnel relocations per year as a percentage of the number of personnel in the facility. Even if the same worker moves several times in a year, those moves count in determining the churn rate. It is the costs associated with moving furniture and materials and the cost of reconfiguring the vacated space for a new user that are important to the facilities manager.