Jen L’Estrange was featured in WorkLife, speaking about workforce planning and hiring for small businesses, despite economic uncertainty.
We’re still seeing smaller businesses moving forward with hiring plans, but overall I imagine that the hiring needs of smaller businesses won’t outpace the hiring freezes and downsizing that’s happening with larger organizations
A commercial roofing contractor was in hyper growth mode. They had goals to increase their field workforce to expand their service area to additional states and geographical locations. If they were to grow their field workforce, they would also need to increase their administrative, operational and sales headcount to support the additional workload created by increased field work. Additionally, they were challenged in workforce retention and development, experiencing high turnover, and did not have a dedicated Human Resources professional to manage employee relations and compliance issues that come with trying to scale a business.
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