and the Affirmative Action hires in HR are getting EVEN LAZIER!
HR has become a fortress of indecision. Laws are such that you have to take risk to move because so many of the laws are conditional and subjective.
HR has also become the pillar of EEO. As gate keepers the outcome is predictable. If a job is unfilled it is no problem for HR. They don’t have production schedules to maintain. Their incentive is to avoid problems not to move the ball down the field.
Like so many other socialist countries, terminating an employee is almost impossible, under any circumstance. The larger and more visible the company the harder it is. I’m seeing droves of contractors and I saw the same thing in lots of other countries in years past.
Add to all this the difficulty of finding drug free candidates and hiring becomes glacial.