Onboarding Bottlenecks from I‑9 and E‑Verify Delays Reducing Hiring Throughput

For large client ramps, delays of even 10–20 workers at roughly $1,000 gross margin each can mean $10,000–$20,000 in lost or deferred margin per incident, and for a busy staffing firm facing multiple ramps per month this can easily translate to $50,000–$100,000+ in recurring opportunity loss plus additional labor cost from manual workarounds. • For large enterprise and manufacturing clients that depend on timely staffing, delayed I-9/E-Verify completion can easily defer or lose 10–30 placements per incident; at roughly $1,000 gross margin per placement, this translates to approximately $10,000–$30,000 in lost or delayed margin per spike, and multiple such events per year quickly accumulate to $100,000+ in opportunity loss in addition to elevated overtime or contractor backfill costs.

Recruiters and compensation analysts track I-9/E-Verify status manually outside the core system, chase managers and new hires by email/text, and temporarily prioritize "easy" cases while parking complex or system-blocked cases in ad hoc spreadsheets and notes. • Training and Development Manager scrambles outside the core HRIS/I-9 system by tracking I-9 status in shared spreadsheets, emailing or texting recruiters and onboarding coordinators for document pictures and status updates, keeping ad-hoc checklists in OneNote or on paper, and relying on institutional knowledge to push urgent I-9s and E-Verify cases through first.