At 300 staff, most hiring is rehiring
The vacancy opens, the team absorbs it, and the replacement spends a year climbing back to where the last person was. Do that forty times a year and you are funding a permanent rebuild and calling it growth.
59% of recruiting employers were replacing someone who had left, and 41% could not fill the vacancy within a month.
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, Recruitment Insights Report, June 2026
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