If you are an employee in a company that takes 2-3 months to fill a position, it can become very frustrating and leaves the current employees feeling as if the company is not thinking of them. Someone else is usually performing that workload and sacrificing additional time, energy and possibly even their own positions responsibilities in order to see that everything’s being done. This is when mistakes can happen and efficiency is lost.

If you are an employer, please keep your current employees in mind when attempting to fill an empty position – and also your new employee. Too much time elapsing can result in too much “cleanup” being necessary in the future to put things back into place. And when the responsibilities of that open position have been spread out over several employees over the course of 2-3 months – when the new employee is hired, they are gathering information and training from several different people and departments that may have not really been knowledgable about it in the first place and have simply been “stepping in.”