Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Can You Trust Your Guys? 🤨 #money #lawncare

5 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Mike Andes argues that employer monitoring (dash cams, GPS/truck tracking, in-cab audio) stems from a lack of trust in employees. He claims that hourly pay incentivizes non-work behavior (gas station stops, smoke breaks, naps), and suggests a reciprocal distrust: if employers don't trust their workers, workers likely don't trust their employers. The clip is a brief, opinionated commentary on trust, monitoring, and pay structures in lawncare/field work.

Ultimately, it's because you don't trust your employees. The reason you have dash cams and the reason that you track your trucks and the reason you track their audio inside the cabs is because you don't trust them. Ultimately, if you pay them by the hour, you're paying them to not work. When they're going to the gas station, taking smoke breaks, taking a nap, taking a siesta, doing whatever. That's the root of the problem. And if you don't trust them, do you really think they trust you?