The role has been open five months. The team has already absorbed it.

A vacancy that stays open long enough stops being a gap and becomes a structure, and the numbers you use to monitor capacity will not show it.

By Steve 5 min read
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A role gets signed off. The spec goes out. Two candidates look promising and neither closes. Then a quarter passes, then another, and the odd thing is that nothing has visibly broken. Delivery still lands. Customers have not complained loudly. The monthly management pack looks unremarkable, and in some respects better than before, because the salary line is lighter than budget. This is the point at which an open vacancy quietly changes category. It is no longer a shortfall waiting to be filled. It has become the shape of the…

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