Replacement search

How it works

Reuse the brief only if the brief was right. If the person failed because hours were a surprise, fix the brief first. Restaff window is the clock. Backfill is any later hire after the window dies. 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: fail day 70, guarantee alive, new slate in 14 days, no second placement fee. Fail day 200, you buy a new search.

How it differs

Replacement guarantee is the commercial promise. First-90-day failure is the metric. Cost of replacement is the money.

Common errors

Replacing the person and not the broken process.

In practice

Treat Replacement search as a week-one operating object. Put this on the scorecard or the start-date checklist. If it only appears in a pitch deck, it will not survive week one. 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 replacement search 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.