Panic Hiring: The Available and Willing Trap | Businessing

Businessing with Pat Miller · Aug 27, 2026 · 28m

Panic hiring starts the second somebody quits and their work lands back on your desk. Available and willing is not the same as right for the job, and the reference call you skipped is usually where you would have found that out.

Seventy-four percent of employers say they have made a bad hire recently, and a third of them say it happened because they had to fill the seat fast. Today I walk through why the rush happens, what one phone call to a reference actually saves you, and four things you can do right now so the next resignation is not an emergency. Plus two AI stories: Salesforce is now…