White Paper - From Recruiting to Retaining

Hiring freezes are no longer short, isolated events. SHRM data puts the median 2025 freeze at 5.4 months, with restructuring-driven freezes running as long as eight — long enough to force a real operational choice, not a temporary pause. Yet Gartner found that 58% of companies made no change to their internal mobility processes during a freeze, leaving a ready-made talent pool unredeployed while external hiring stayed shut.