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title: Change Reason
slug: change-reason
docTags: 
createdAt: 2021-11-09T19:07:51.000Z
---

Returns the reason for a departure. `reason` can be `Attendance`, `Business Direction`, `Career Opportunity`, `Compensation`, `Culture`, `Death`, `Education`, `End of Contract`, `Lack of Advancement`, `Lack of Recognition`, `Lack of Work`, `Layoff`, `Manager`, `Misconduct`, `Moving`, `Mutual Agreement`, `No-Show`, `Other Job`, `Performance`, `Personal/Family`, `Poached`, `Reduction in Force`, `Retirement`, `Seasonal`, `Theft`, `Transferred`, `Work Conditions`, or `Work-Life Balance`.

- **Code name**: `reason`
- **Sensitivity**: Manager-only
- **Data type**: [Enum](docId\:UnTq2eAL5RMIpNYczvfw1) 
- **Data category**: Changes
- **Entity type:** Change
- **Read only:** No