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It’s Better to Avoid a Toxic Employee than Hire a Superstar

Harvard Business Review

One 2012 CareerBuilder survey found that 41% of the nearly 2,700 employers surveyed estimated that a bad hire could cost $25,000 , while a quarter believed it was much higher—$50,000 or more. and 3) daily performance data. The dataset spanned 11 global companies and 58,542 hourly workers.