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R I VERS I DE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLI C SOC I AL SERV I CES

Principal Accountant and Team Expand Understanding of Staff Attrition

By enhancing and streamlining the Fiscal Attrition Report, Principal Accountant Padmapriya (Priya) Kedharnath and her team provided DPSS executives with a stronger tool for understanding attrition data and making decisions about recruitment and retention. Priya combined her knowledge of the Human Resources Management Systems with her technical skills to develop queries that offered greater detail for the reasons behind staff departures. She and her team created a report that separately showed the same level of detail for all staff transferring between divisions in DPSS. The reports allow program executives to monitor trends in length of service in addition to the reasons for their departure. needs. Phase II of the FFD Attrition Report is set to rollout in July 2023. The upcoming report will contain new elements, such as attrition data broken down by job classification for casework staff. The insights are invaluable when helping program executives identify classifications with the highest turnover rate and helping them tailor initiatives to improve retention. Priya and her team continue to collaborate with Program staff on additional changes that will meet their reporting

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