How a Pre-Hire Work Audit Saved 1.2 Million in Wasted Salary

Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions · Jul 24, 2026 · 6m · transcript

Episode 133 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo dives into a specific case: a mid-size B2B software company that lost $1.2 million over two years paying employees whose jobs had become irrelevant. Lucas and Luna break down how the company conducted a pre-hire work audit — mapping each role's actual day-to-day tasks against the original job description — and discovered that 40% of new hires were filling responsibilities that no longer existed. They walk through the audit methodology, the pushback from managers, and the surprising result: cutting four open positions entirely and redefining…