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When do you know when to start hiring?
Here at GB Plumbing, we knew we should be starting to hire when we were working over 70 hours a week and not seeing any slow down with jobs coming in. We’re now up to 3 trucks, and are looking to hir...
We are a local Roofing Business in Worcester UK. Established since 1971 and currently have 21 staff all in. When ever we have expanded we always look at work crews versus office/management staff. As we hit certain break points we know that to take on more crew staff will require additional office staff to help manage. We then look at the profit of each crew minus the increase in office staff to manage them. We have found over the years that expansion is not always the best if you end up having more staff but no more profit.
Thank you for this, we definitely agree to always looking at your numbers first. And like you said there has to be a balance of work crews to then office staff. You don't want to over run your administration staff.
