Perhaps exiting employers are more open and honest because they’ve nothing to use by opening up? A safer workplace would facilitate opening up about any issues, without fear, before it gets to the point where the employee is forced to resign.

Yes, I’m cynical, but in my entire life so far as a software engineer I’ve (anecdotally, naturally) never known anyone attend an exit interview with a positive attitude and generally good things to say. They’re generally viewed as a ‘way to find out why you quit’ and are pretty much always a place where stones are overturned and horrible things found, reported, and ignored.

It’s great to hear trends are communicated but, well, I just have no faith in the authenticity or effectiveness of that process at all. Sure, companies have ‘a process’ but that involves people and money, a dreadful mixture in many cases.