£250,000. That’s how much it costs my organisation when I hire the wrong the person. Now you might be wondering how much I pay in agency fees, but I’m talking about the true cost of employee turnover. It’s natural to only think of the direct costs associated with recruitment, but these pale in comparison to the opportunity costs incurred through lost productivity as people leave and join a business. So, if you make hiring decisions, the real costs associated with getting it wrong probably run to hundreds of thousands of pounds.