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First-90-day failure
First-90-day failure is a seat that ends inside the first 90 days, whether by your call or theirs. It is the usual commercial-guarantee window and a product-quality metric.
How it works
Track cause: brief wrong, hours surprise, English miss, setup miss, life event. Fix the cause before the restaff. Ninety days is not Article 296. For a U.S. company hiring one Filipino teammate, write this into the brief, the employment contract, and the peso payroll file before the start date. Slack habits do not override the Labor Code, BIR, or NPC. If the local employer of record holds the paper, they run the statutory step; you still owe a clean operating definition so the seat does not fail in week three. Put a number on the example when you budget loaded cost, because a nameless allowance always returns as a December surprise or a missed SLA.
Example: 4 starts, 1 fail at day 40 because graveyard was sold as dayside. Failure rate 25%, cause hours, not ‘PH talent.’
How it differs
Restaff window is the contract. Probation can run longer. Cost of replacement is the bill.
Common errors
Hiding early fails by calling them ‘never started.’
In practice
Treat First-90-day failure as a week-one operating object. Put a peso or dollar figure on the next twelve months. If the word cannot survive that arithmetic, it is marketing. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have first-90-day failure yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.