31/08/2026
The real cost of a bad hire and how to avoid it"
Most employers only count the obvious number: what they paid the person. But the real cost is everywhere else.
The extra hours managers spend supervising and correcting work, the projects that stall, the good employees who get frustrated picking up the slack, and the client relationships that quietly suffer while the wrong person is in the seat.
According to CIPD's 2024 Resourcing and Talent Planning report, 41% of UK organisations said new recruits had quit within their first 12 weeks. And the cost of a bad hire can easily exceed 30% of that employee's first-year earnings rising as high as 400% for senior or specialist roles.
The good news: it's largely avoidable. A structured hiring process, clear role definition from the start, and rigorous candidate vetting, think structured interviews and thorough reference checks, not just a resume scan catch mismatches before they become expensive.
At People Connekt, this is exactly what we help employers get right not just filling a seat, but filling it with the right person, the first time.
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