Attrition used in a sentence

Attrition in a sentence as a noun

Until attrition really kicks in, you're going to be signing more customers than you lose.

I went to a theatre conservatory in NYC and was constantly assaulted by the drumbeat of "50% attrition rate!

As those people become less and less of a consumer force via attrition, entities like the BBB in their current form will cease to exist.

At the same time, the entire industry is full jumping jacks, attrition in nearly every company is record high.

Given the attrition rate and gap in quality of delivered service, it makes sense for these companies to find out ways to sustain and meet standards.

They're also in a business that, judging by the number of new entrants into the market, will see an attrition in profits-per-deal as time goes on.

This is one of the major household-name software companies, one with a particularly infamous attrition rate.

On the topic of emails and account cancellations: When I started sending out "Your Tarsnap account will be deleted soon" emails, the account attrition rate dropped by 50%.

I interned there in 2003, and it was already apparent that they preferred to hire people overseas and let attrition reduce the ranks of folks locally in order to reduce costs.

If we don't, then why not have a looser arrangement where everyone has some autonomy?This attrition game that we use to fill the corporate and academic upper ranks doesn't pick good leaders.

* Terrorist organizations tend to collapse over time, through various combinations of frustration, attrition and overreach.

It didn't improve linear increased output, it produced a negative output ratio per hour overall, furthermore it increased attrition and problems with engineering implementations.

How about an "Intro to Medicine" where we do fun stuff like play Operation and dress up in scrubs?All you're doing is postponing the high attrition until the second year, when the students learn that you bamboozled them with a cute and fun intro course.

“I believe it will lower attrition, it’ll increase performance, it’ll attract and retain better people.”This is pretty good long-term thinking on Starbucks' part...On one-hand, there's the obvious cost...on the other, I imagine that a significant number of the best, too-qualified-to-be-just-a-barista baristas leave after two or so years, anyway.

The change wasn't from people who didn't realize their account was going to be deleted -- they had received two emails already, 1 week and 2 weeks earlier -- but getting that last prompt seems to have shifted people's default action from "do nothing" to "pay some money to make the account stay around".Some time later, I cut Tarsnap's account attrition rate by another ~50% by adding a line to the "account will be deleted soon" email: "If you've decided to stop using Tarsnap, I'd love to know why." This wasn't deliberate -- I added it for the simple reason that I really do want to get that information -- but it seems to be causing people to stop and say "hmm, I can't think of any good reason to not use Tarsnap, so maybe I should keep using it after all".