Over the past five years, the attrition and turnover rate of employees in Samsung Electronics' semiconductor institutional sector has been in the 1% range. The overall attrition and turnover rate at Samsung Electronics was also lower than that of SK hynix.
According to Samsung Electronics' sustainability reports on the 29th, the company's average attrition and turnover rate from 2020 to 2024 over the past five years was 2.1%. Using the same basis, SK hynix's average attrition and turnover rate was 2.3%.
Looking only at Device Solutions (DS), which oversees Samsung Electronics' semiconductor business, the attrition and turnover rate is lower. During the same period, the average attrition and turnover rate of Samsung Electronics' DS institutional sector was in the upper 1% range.
Earlier, a domestic corporations research institute analyzed that Samsung Electronics' attrition and turnover rate for 2024 was 10.1%, nearly eight times higher than SK hynix's 1.3%. Samsung Electronics said this comparison does not account for differences in the two companies' workforce structures.
Samsung Electronics operates large-scale overseas production lines in Vietnam and India. The research institute calculated Samsung Electronics' attrition and turnover rate based on all employees at home and abroad, including overseas production workers, while SK hynix was calculated based only on domestic employees.
Samsung Electronics sees the relatively frequent attrition and turnover of overseas production workers compared to domestic employees as a characteristic observed across global manufacturing. It said it is difficult to directly compare this as an indicator of attrition or employment stability for domestic semiconductor talent.
A Samsung Electronics official said, "It is unreasonable to compare the attrition and turnover rates of corporations with production bases overseas and those without using the same criteria," adding, "Samsung Electronics maintains the highest level of employment stability in Korea."