Enter start and end date. Tenure is shown in years, months, days and total days. Optionally exclude weekends for working-days tenure.

Tenure is the length of time between two dates. It can be expressed as total days or as years, months and days. For roles and contracts, it often means length of service or contract period.

Subtract start date from end date to get total days. To get years/months/days: advance from start by full years, then full months; the remainder is days. Optionally count only weekdays between the dates.

Tenure is descriptive, not a target to 'improve'. Longer tenure can indicate retention; use it alongside turnover and exit reasons for context.

Using the wrong timezone or date boundary (e.g. start of day vs end of day); mixing calendar and working days; or forgetting to set end date to today when measuring current tenure.

Use years/months/days for readability (e.g. 2 years 3 months 5 days). Use total days for exact comparison or formulas. Use working days only when your process counts business days.

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