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017Your company experienced 20 percent turnover last year. This means 20 percent of people employed at the beginning of the year were terminated or no longer employed by the year’s end. You know that a year from now you will need to have 40 more people in your company to keep up with increasing customer demand. How many employees should you plan on hiring, assuming turnover remains constant?

Answer 1

In the practical real world, it's most likely that hiring will be ongoing throughout the year, to replenish attrition so that the necessary work force is always in place.  The company would hire on an as-needed basis.