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I don’t have sufficient work for my workers
A reader writes:
I’m the proprietor of a small enterprise with a small crew of three underneath me. Our work is seasonal, with a really busy interval for seven months of the yr and little to do for the opposite 5.
Through the quiet interval, I really feel an enormous quantity of stress to create work for the staff to maintain them busy. A lot so, it interferes with the standard of labor I produce. I dread going into my office each morning having sufficient work just for one worker, understanding it have to be boring and demotivating for them.
The workload is such that one worker can be ample through the quiet months, with three at our peak. I’ve considered seasonal workers however don’t suppose this may be an excellent match for our enterprise. Sourcing and coaching new employees members yearly can be a drain of my money and time.
I do know that many would recommend getting different duties out of the way in which that usually don’t get accounted for, resembling submitting and organizing. We’ve carried out all that in the beginning of the sluggish season and now I’m at a loss as to what to tasks to offer them. I even gave everybody a month off in the course of the sluggish season simply to offer myself a break from the stress of it.
I want I may loosen up just a little and benefit from the sluggish season earlier than issues get mad once more later within the yr. It will be much more productive for me to make use of that point creating the enterprise. What do I do?
I reply this query over at Inc. as we speak, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
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