Time to productivity is a guess
The manager thinks it is a month, the team knows it is three, and the business has no measure either way. So onboarding gets shortened whenever the roster is tight, which makes the number worse.
2.4 million Australians started a job in the year to February 2026, and every one of them had a first week that either worked or did not.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Job Mobility, February 2026
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