Peter Cappelli, a professor at Wharton, has written more extensively about companies underestimating how much it costs to keep a position unfilled.
A common trick, for example, is to keep a secretarial or administrative position unfilled, and to spend the money budgeted for salaries on other items.
Filled tires cover a lot more ground than unfilled tires, making it advantageous to keep them pumped.
Specifically, Republicans in the Senate are abusing the filibuster to keep jobs -- in both the executive and judicial branches -- unfilled while sitting idly by and letting economic growth take a hit in the name of ideology.
Shifts go unfilled, analysts say, and managers are lowering hiring standards to keep the doors open.
There is unfilled space between images of taverns and farms and their skyscraper replacements because he had prepared to keep collecting.
And in the job market, there's something very a kin to that which is if I keep looking for just the right job and the employer keeps looking for just the right person, they end up having openings that are unfilled and I end up being unemployed.
But, in the main, the roles would be unfilled if they were kept out.
Legal wrangling in Minnesota over spoiled and absent ballots kept one of that state's Senate slots unfilled.
Tough politicking behind the scenes by Antônio Palocci, her heavyweight chief of staff, together with the bait of unfilled senior jobs in the government, kept most members of her coalition in line.
He kept Aetrium's payroll constant while adding to its unfilled orders.
