Employees / Subcontractor

           The are pros and cons when it come to employees. When you begin to hire employees for your company then expect to lose a lot of your time tending to those employees and the paperwork required to have them. It is true that a good functioning team can out preform a single man. A group of well-functioning teams can out preform a single team. But there is a happy medium. When you have to many employees some of them will find ways not to work and everyone will slow down production. There’s a balance point that you need to find where the cost of having employees is justified by the increase of output.  

I work alone by choice and when I must hire an employee, it is never one for my company it’s a subcontractor who is responsible for their own insurances, and paperwork. Even though this system works for me now, I see in the near future that it may not. Before I hire anyone, I will know the total cost of having them work with me. I will also hire a skilled carpenter and a novice who I must train. This system seems to work well with mew. I find most people like a team of three or five to build home and do remodeling projects. Because I am quality focused, I am not interested in a large company. When you have a large group of people you tend to be volume focused. Again, each of these choices have their advantages you must choose the path you with to follow and stay true it.

The truth is when you have a group of subcontractors which work well together, they function like a team and you are under no obligation to carry them when work is lean. This also allows you to assemble your team to fit the needs of the project. It is important to know the direction you wish to take your company and then plan your steps.

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