John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

Keeping your OFS busy

9 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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John Jonas advises employers concerned about "keeping someone busy" after hiring: you often only discover available work once someone is hired. He contrasts hourly vs salaried hires (hourly reduces pressure to fill time), and describes common solutions—assigning dual responsibilities, redistributing tasks when workload grows, and a mindset shift where owners find tasks to delegate.

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This is a super common thing that, that employers are worried about before they hire someone. Oh, I don't know if I can keep someone busy. And what we actually find is you don't know if you can keep someone busy until you've hired someone and then you realize, oh my gosh, I have so many things that they could do for me. If you've hired them on a salary, now if you hire them hourly, which you can do, then you don't really care if you keep them busy, so it doesn't really matter. But if you hire them on a salary part time or full time, when they have extra time, it's amazing what this will do for your mindset as a business own, you start to find things to pass off to them. So many of our people have dual responsibilities. Because we hire them, they get into the thing. Either either there's not enough work in that one task to keep them busy full time, so we give them something else, or we end up there's too much work there, so we hire another person and then that person gets some other responsibility.