Managed web hosting company Peer 1 is offering UKbased recruits £1,000 if they want to leave within the first two weeks, as part of a recruitment drive.

Ollie Ward, branch manager at technology recruiter Idealpeople, who is hiring for the company, told Recruiter: “I will be actively promoting it to candidates at an early point in the process. It will create quite a buzz locally and you will get an increase in people applying for the jobs because of it.”

The company is looking to hire 50 people through the scheme. The roles being recruited for include technical, sales and customer service. Training for the jobs takes place in the US, although the jobs are UKbased. Two new workers have already been employed through the scheme.

Dominic Monkhouse, UK managing director of Peer 1, who came up with the idea, told Recruiter: “Even if you add up the cost of flights to the states and hotel accommodation for three to four weeks [for training], it pales in significance to the opportunity cost to the business.”

He added an incorrect hire could take nine months to recover and damage the company’s customer care.

Ward explained: “Two weeks is enough for a recruit to know whether they have made the right decision, but from an employer’s perspective
it’s almost impossible to make such a judgement. It’s better for all concerned to send them on their way sooner rather than later.