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How a Hiring Freeze Forced Us to Hire Better
In this episode of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive hiring lesson: sometimes a hiring freeze is the best thing that can happen to your talent pipeline. They examine a real-world case from a mid-size B2B SaaS company that implemented a six-month hiring freeze in 2025. Instead of halting all recruitment, the company used the freeze to overhaul its hiring process—introducing structured scorecards, candidate rubrics, and mandatory cross-functional panels. The result? When the freeze lifted, the company hired 40% fewer people but retained 90% of new hires…
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