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revolving door syndrome en · NOUN

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1. (idiomatic, uncountable, usually) A situation in which employee turnover in an organization is inordinately high.
   • "At agencies, you have the revolving-door syndrome. We have a lot more stability here. . . . [W]e are able to attract and retain solid talent because Fidelity has a lot to offer in terms of benefits, stability." 2013 October 21, Jennifer Rooney, “The Rise Of The In-House Agency”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2013, retrieved 01 Dec 2015:
   • [S]exual harassment, stereotyping, racism, ageism, and sexual preference discrimination . . . have led to situations such as glass ceilings, earnings gaps, and the revolving door syndromes. 2005, Thomas William Carlisle, Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Psychological, Health, Social, and Behavioral Indicators of Stress Reduction and Human Resource Development in the Indian Workplace, UMI Microform 3158900, p. 279
   • "Unless this ‘revolving-door’ syndrome is dealt with, it will only lead to deterioration of the quality of staff, as you will continue to lose your best people," Banerjee wrote. 2009 February 21, “Lab in breast cancer scare was beset with problems”, in Toronto Star, Canada, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, retrieved 01 Dec 2015:
2. (idiomatic, uncountable, usually) A situation in which a person or group repeats a cycle of behaviors or experiences, usually with unsuccessful or undesirable results.
   • While many states have some form of assisted treatment on the books, the challenge remains in getting them to utilize what is at their disposal rather than tolerating the revolving-door syndrome of hospital admissions, readmissions, abandonment to the streets and incarceration that engulfs those not receiving treatment. 1999 July 9, E. Fuller Torrey, Mary T. Zdanowicz, “Deinstitutionalization Hasn't Worked”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, retrieved 01 Dec 2015:
   • Prison reform and the rehabilitation of prisoners need to be part of the fight against crime, since it is critical that revolving door syndromes of criminality be arrested. 2005 September 28, Patrick Manning, Parliamentary Hansard of Trinidad and Tobago, archived from the original on 07 May 2021, page 34:
   • Homan said the revolving-door syndrome is particularly frustrating and she and others have been pushing for the repeat offenders to be prohibited from returning. 2007 August 8, Betsy Powell, “BLT taking bite out of crime”, in Toronto Star, Canada, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, retrieved 01 Dec 2015:
3. (idiomatic, often, uncountable, usually) A situation in which a person changes employers, perhaps more than once, switching between (a) employment with the government or with an organization having oversight authority and (b) employment with an organization regulated by or overseen by the other employer.
   • Concerns exist on both sides of the Atlantic regarding the effectiveness of government watchdogs and the growing influence of special interest groups within the bureaucracy. ‘Iron triangles’ and ‘revolving door syndromes’ which began as Washington concerns are showing their face in the UK too. 2008, R. Uprichard, The Bureaucracies, Northern Ireland: Lurgan College, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2023:
   • That leads us to question whether other practices in parliament and politics may be vulnerable to corruption: conflicts of interest, the role of lobbying, political party funding and the "revolving door" syndrome in which parliamentarians take jobs in areas where their knowledge of some government departments gives them an undue advantage. 2010 February 5, Chandrashekhar Krishnan, “Abusing power for private gain”, in The Guardian, UK, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2023, retrieved 01 Dec 2015:
   • The report . . . called for a review of the effect of what it called a revolving door syndrome, in which analysts leave to work for an issuer whose debt they were rating. 2009 August 28, Cyrus Sanati, “Inspector Faults S.E.C. on Oversight of Rating Agencies”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2021, retrieved 01 Dec 2015:

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iron triangle · conflict of interest · regulatory capture