The quality of a handover sets the speed of the newcomer, and of the whole team
- 54 days
- average time to fill a role, the gap before anyone starts
- SHRM / PwC Saratoga
- 33%
- of new hires leave within their first six months
- Deloitte
- 12%
- of employees say their onboarding actually worked
- Gallup
U.S. and U.K. benchmarks, shown as a directional reference rather than a Lithuanian or EU estimate.
The standard turnover-cost formula (CIPD)
Knowledge loss is the only line item with no agreed number, because most companies never measure it.
None of this closes on day one. That one line is exactly what OakHive protects.
- Departure admin
- Recruitment
- Vacancy cover
- Manager time
- Onboarding
- Lost productivity
- Knowledge loss
You’re already paying for this. You just don’t have a number for it yet.
Nobody puts this on a budget line. It is spread across every new starter who spends six weeks finding out what the company already decided, and every team that solves a problem a second time because the first solution was never written anywhere.
We are not going to put a number on your company. So put one on it yourself: these are your figures, and the arithmetic is simple enough to argue with.
People × ramp weeks × cost, times the productivity lost during them. That is your number, not ours. OakHive’s claim is narrower: most of those weeks go on rediscovering things the company already knew.
See a real handover in 20 minutes
Bring a role that is about to change hands. We show you an anonymised handover guide, what the interview looks like, and how the team asks it questions in Microsoft Teams. No slides.
We take on a few companies at a time, and a person replies to every request.