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

Give your new employees at least 2 weeks to catch up

16 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip in which Mike Andes advises employers—particularly in home services—not to cycle team members rapidly. He warns that frequent turnover (e.g., every seven to ten days) is damaging and recommends keeping entry-level hires at least two weeks so they can learn processes, systems, and safety procedures. Andes notes this training period costs money and gives an example: on a business with a ~20% profit margin, a new hire may need to generate several thousand dollars in revenue (spoken as “5, 6, 10000”) before reaching break-even.

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Every seven to ten days.

Two weeks.

About 20% profit margin.

Spoken as “5, 6, 10000” (several thousand dollars; verbal phrasing in source).

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If you are burning through team members every seven to 10 days, and I've seen businesses in home services that literally every seven to ten days they turn their team members and that's just not going to work ultimately, usually takes a minimum. If you're taking someone that is completely green and completely entry level, it takes a minimum of two weeks to make them efficient. Just to learn your processes, your systems, how to do the job, how to do things safely. And so it's imperative that you at least keep them two weeks because you're going to lose money in those two weeks. And if you're running a 20% profit margin business now, they need to generate 5, 6, 10000 in revenue for the business before they actually make a profit and get above break even.