At my current job, I have experienced a situation where a vital team member was temporality taken from my quality group to work in another project within the company. The individual chosen happen to be the most senior member of my group who everyone turned to when there was an issue; my manager quickly learned that losing him was a big deal. Issues quickly built up and the individual members of my team had to plan for a lot more time working out solutions that would have almost been trivial days before. Although he was only assigned to another internal project for 3 weeks, my manager responded by hiring two new employees to our group to help with the immediate work load and be better prepared if a similar situation were to occur again in the future. This hiring stint recently looks like it was a good idea because one of my team members has applied to dental school and may be leaving the company within the next few weeks. This time, my team has ample people who have now been training for a while and are familiar with the roles and regulations that the FDA requires so the transition should be much smoother should it occur.