Seasonal Work

Question

For those who are a seasonal business.&nbsp; Do you try to help your employees find work during the off season so they come back each season?&nbsp; Wondering if its better to have them collect unemployment or find work for them during the off season?

bedellmgmt · Answer

If you can subcontract them out I wouldn't hesitate to try to keep them around - good people have never been harder to find for seasonal businesses!!

ayangonz · Answer

I always have a handyman house that I purchase. If things get slow, I just send them to work on the house. Then I sell it and repeat. I purchase another and leave it ready for them to work on it if they have a slow week. However, It's been two years since they have been too slow. Nowadays, I have to pull them off jobs to get things done on the handyman house or find someone else to work on it as the guys are always booked out.&nbsp;

kasey · Answer

My guys draw job-attached unemployment as well as sporadic jobs that come in and snow plowing/shoveling.

wesfreeland · Answer

I'm a tree service so we will work all year, but things definitely slow down in the winter.&nbsp; We go all out during the busy season and do a lot of deferred maintenance things in the winter.&nbsp; We probably only do tree work 20 hours a week and the other 15-20 is a lot of shop work until mid March.