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New hires must increase productivity, not 'fill slots'

Some organisations have over-hired in recent years with "no concept of steadily increasing productivity", according to a global HR expert who is calling for a rethink of recruitment practices.

Among his HR Predictions for 2023, author and analyst Josh Bersin says that if leaders are hiring to grow their organisations, but individual hires are not increasing productivity, something is wrong.

"As economists say, there are only two ways to grow a company (or a country): you can hire more people (grow your population) or you can make each person more productive," he says.

"Let us suggest an important idea: every incremental hire, under the best of conditions, should increase the productivity of the entire team"...