Job postings rarely mention how long a role actually sits open. On average it takes about 44 days to fill a seat, and every one of those days is a day the work still needs doing, usually by whoever is already on the team.
What 44 days of vacancy actually costs
A vacant seat doesn’t pause the workload, it redistributes it. Calls go unanswered a little longer, invoices go out a little later, and the rest of the team absorbs the gap on top of their own jobs. None of that shows up on a hiring budget, but all of it shows up in slower service and a more stretched team for the six weeks or so it takes to fill the role.
And if the hire doesn’t work out
Sometimes the fit isn’t right, the skills don’t match what the role needed, or the person leaves within the first few months. When that happens, the business isn’t just back where it started. It’s down about $4,700 to run the search again, and back into another 44-day wait while the seat sits empty a second time.
An illustrative example
Picture a growing e-commerce business that loses its customer support lead eight weeks into the role. Replacing that hire in-house costs around $4,700 in recruiting time and admin, on top of the 44 days, on average, it takes to fill the seat again, all while support tickets pile up. A back-office partner that re-matches at no extra cost skips that second bill entirely: if the person isn’t the right fit, TechMinions finds a replacement without the business paying to restart the search from scratch.
This is a worked example to illustrate the point. It is not a real TechMinions client story.
Why TechMinions re-matches at no extra cost
A dedicated back-office professional through TechMinions starts at $1,499 a month, and a small department set-up starts at $3,000 a month, both with a trial period and 30 days’ notice to change or cancel. If a match isn’t right, TechMinions re-matches the role at no extra cost, so a wrong fit doesn’t turn into a second $4,700 bill and another 44-day wait.
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