Let me see if I’m following you. The guidance might be: if you want to keep people, let them follow the internal transfer process to the interview and feedback

Let me see if I’m following you. The guidance might be: if you want to keep people, let them follow the internal transfer process to the interview and feedback stage. Your counter claim is: nah, the data don’t necessarily support that. Maybe the people who got further in the process were different. High skill employees who knew they had another shot at an internal transfer, for example. Simply giving everyone an interview is not likely to fix the problem.