Definitions
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- verb intransitive To
hire too manyemployees .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If a CEO needed one or two or more employees in order to increase the CEO compensation, those few employees would be hired, but leadership would not be inclined to overhire which would diminish the CEO's total income.
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Wall Street "tends to overhire and overfire," says Gary Goldstein, chief executive of Whitney Group,
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They overhire in China, think it makes the people work harder.
Chinalyst - China blogs in English wtdevflnt 2010
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They overhire in China, think it makes the people work harder.
Chinalyst - China blogs in English wtdevflnt 2010
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We keep our people as long as we can and try not to overhire or overgrow.
unknown title 2009
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One thing I learned from Johnny Malone, is that companies can get carried away in good times, overhire, and overdo everything.
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One thing I learned from Johnny Malone, is that companies can get carried away in good times, overhire, and overdo everything.
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They get funding and then overhire programmers and over spend on infrastructure. meanwhile they don’t have a clue how to manage the show so they probably created two or three hierarchies of project managers. they probably hire their friends and give them elaborate titles with no real responsibilities. they fight with each other when the pressure is on and in the end fail to generate revenue or capture marketshare.
Judy’s Book: Avoiding the DeadPool Michael Arrington 2005
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But new restaurants "generally need to overhire initially while you establish the quality of your service.
SFGate: Top News Stories Kathleen Pender 2010
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