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

Career Progression 📈 Increases Employee Retention 💵

9 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video by Mike Andes about employee retention. The speakers discuss that many frontline roles (example: landscaping) are easy to learn but quickly become unsatisfying, so retaining workers requires visible career progression and opportunities for pay growth within the company. Mike Andes emphasizes showing pathways into supervisory, administrative, or sales roles to unlock retention.

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I've heard multiple people say that this is the best place they've ever worked, but they don't want to do the work anymore. As soon as you got trimming hedges down and pushing lawnmowers and pulling weeds and, you know, like, I can train people to be pretty good at that within six months, then you do it for another six months, and then you're like, this kind of sucks. I want to do something different. I don't blame you, man. Go do the thing.
Forget about the idea of keeping them for 10 years because they're just not going to be here. I would really say, like, okay, until I can grow to the point where I can have general managers or divisional leaders or office admin staff or salespeople that I can move them into and actually show a career progression, because we've already know that's why they're here. They know they want a paycheck. And if I can show that paycheck can grow at this company, then I have unlocked the ability to retain them.