1 in 5 junior staffers planning to quit

expect a new hiring crisis.

one in five junior staffers plan to leave their accounting firm by the end of the year, according to a startling new survey.

and, of those, about 75% plan to quit public accounting completely, significantly worse than last year’s 65% loss rate.

the data comes from the latest issue of ioma’s partner’s report (subscribe here) which reports the results of a survey of more than 2,000 employees of cpa firms, conducted as part of consulting magazine’s 2010 best firms to work for survey.

in addition, the average anticipated tenure for a junior employee is slipping — to just 3.9 years, a decline from the year-ago 4.1.

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