# Redeployment rate

A term used when buying staffing agency.

The share of workers who move straight to another assignment when their current one ends.

Recruiting is the largest controllable cost in staffing, and a worker who redeploys costs nothing to find. A high rate means the agency has enough overlapping demand to keep people busy, which is a fact about the client base and not about the recruiters. Ask for the rate by branch and by skill, and compare it to what the agency spends on job advertising. A low rate with a healthy margin usually means the margin is being paid for by a recruiting spend that a buyer will have to keep funding.

Part of: Buying a Staffing Agency (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-staffing-agency)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-staffing-agency/terms/redeployment-rate