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Should You Hire Someone to Help You in Your Lawn Mowing Business<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

There comes a time in the life cycle of your business when you start thinking about your first employee. Taking on an employee is a big commitment so there are some things you should consider before making this decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should you hire someone to help you in your lawn mowing business? – Will your turnover allow you to employ? For the best chance of success, you will need to be working 40+ hrs a week when you take them on. Your workload should then decrease by 33% which will allow you to quote more and grow your company.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two different reasons for employing your first worker, and if you hire for the wrong reason, your business will suffer, so it is best to be clear on this from the start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if you get it right, it is a good way to increase your income<\/a> without doing all the work yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two different reasons you would hire someone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reason number one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are full up and working forty-plus hours a week. If you were to get someone to help, you would get through the work quicker. Now you can either get home earlier or quote and get more work until you are doing a forty-hour week together but making more money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your motivation is to get home earlier or just hire someone, so you’re not working alone, this will work for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are hiring someone to work with you to grow your income, this can be a bad idea. If you are working forty hours and you hire a worker, you will find that you are now doing a 30-hour week. Not a twenty-hour week. What happened? You would have thought that one person = 40 hours, so two people = 20 hours. Simple arithmetic right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrong!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason (and I have never been able to figure out why) two people working together will only go 33% faster than one. I have employed lots of lawn care workers over the years, and it happens every time. Now the news gets worse. That new worker is going to cost you. You guessed it. 33% of the turnover. You are financially no better off than when you started. Don’t give up in despair. You can make this work. Take this person you have trained and put them into a new vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you have two vehicles on the road, and you are still paying him 33% but only on his turnover. Now all of a sudden you are making more money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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