Trump's Scaramucci sacking: The cost of a bad hire

Anthony Scaramucci’s 10-day stint as White House Communications Director is seen as indicative of the unchecked chaos that appears to be raging through the White House.

Partly, this is because the former Wall Street financier is not the only senior figure to be fired in Trump’s six-month stint as US President.

Previously, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Michael Dubke, Michael Flynn, Sally Yates and James Comey, amongst others, have all felt the business end of the ex-Apprentice host’s: “You’re fired.”

Yet, according to a recent Gartner study, one-in-five employees should have not have been hired at all – which might the problem with the apparent revolving-door at the front of Trump’s White House.