boomerang employee

There has come to be a name for people like Mr. Breckenridge: boomerang employees.

Joyce L. Gioia, a management consultant and president of the Herman Group in Greensboro, N.C., says she believes that boomerang employees will become even more common as linear career paths give way to what she calls hopscotch patterns.

Madge Nimocks, who was named the alumni relations leader at the company two years ago, says that from March 2002 to March 2003, Ernst & Young filled 96 management positions - more than a forth of the total openings - with boomerang employees.