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Employee Attrition Report by Department

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Problem

Meta's People Analytics team wants a simple attrition report by department. Write a SQL query that joins three tables to show headcount, attrition, and attrition rate for each department.

Requirements

  1. Use the employees, departments, and employment_events tables.
  2. Return one row per department, including departments with no employees.
  3. Count:
    • total employees assigned to the department
    • employees who have at least one termination event
    • active employees with no termination event
  4. Calculate attrition_rate as terminated employees divided by total employees, rounded to 2 decimal places.
  5. Order results by attrition_rate descending, then department_name ascending.

Schema

departments
ColumnTypeDescription
department_idPKINTUnique department identifier
department_nameVARCHAR(100)Department name
orgVARCHAR(100)Meta organization name
employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee full name
department_idINTDepartment assignment
hire_dateDATEEmployee hire date
locationVARCHAR(100)Primary office location
employment_events
ColumnTypeDescription
event_idPKINTUnique employment event identifier
employee_idINTEmployee tied to the event
event_typeVARCHAR(50)Type of event such as hire, transfer, or termination
event_dateDATEDate of the event
reasonVARCHAR(100)Reason associated with the event
Tablesdepartmentsemployeesemployment_events
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