Vacancies in key skill positions may mean that products and projects may need to be dropped altogether. If a team environment exists, a disruption in team cohesiveness may occur. Vacancies may affect the idea generation of others because co-workers are frustrated or overworked. Vacancies may cause overworked employees to tire, which may adversely affect product quality through increased error rates. A vacancy may make a manager reluctant to terminate poor performing employees.
Vacancies coupled with poor performers can cripple the team.
Vacancies may frustrate other employees, causing them to lower their productivity. Vacancies may frustrate other employees, causing them to quit at higher rate than they normally would. Vacancies may cause the team to miss its goals, thereby reducing the possibility of individual and team incentives, which may further reduce productivity. Vacancies may hold up vacation time for current employees which may lead to increase stress or frustration. Understaffed departments will not be able to send current employees to training and conferences, which may lead to increase stress, decreased worker knowledge or frustration.