Some companies don't want more workers — they want better ones
Some companies are opting to replace existing employees with higher-performing talent rather than expanding their workforce. This trend, referred to as 'bullseye hiring,' has gained traction as hiring budgets tighten and economic uncertainty looms. Recruiters indicate that this shift is affecting roles across various levels, from entry-level to C-suite positions.
- ▪Companies are replacing underperforming employees with better talent instead of hiring more workers.
- ▪The trend of 'bullseye hiring' has become more prominent in 2025, according to recruiting experts.
- ▪Hiring rates in the US have recently declined due to economic factors and the adoption of AI.
Business Insider files mainly under business. We currently carry 613 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Business Insider |
| Canonical URL | https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-replacing-workers-executives-recruiters-hiring-slowdown-job-market-economy-2026-4 |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 10:05:01 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T10:52:09.018Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T10:52:09.018Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | pY6cUvkyD3pP |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
With hiring budgets constrained, some companies are finding a different way to bring in talent: replacing workers with better ones."There is just no appetite for mediocrity anymore," said Brent Orsuga, founder of the supply chain and logistics recruiting firm Pinnacle Growth Advisors. Over the past year, he's seen many of his clients quietly replace employees rather than grow headcount."Everyone was looking at what they have and being like, 'I want the best of the best,'" Orsuga said. Take the example of a company with 10 sales reps that is looking to boost performance, he said. They could expand the team.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Business Insider.