Short advisory YouTube clip by Mike Andes arguing that employers—especially for labor roles with employees working offsite—should have a written employee handbook. The speaker recommends the handbook spell out expectations and rules (e.g., texting while driving, smoking), and that employees sign it before starting work or any trial period so the employer can rely on the document if issues arise.
Have an employee handbook. It's very, very simple. It seems very simple. But especially when it comes to labor positions where they're leaving the office and they're going out away from you, you need to have an employee handbook that kind of holds them to the line of what's expected of them, what's kind of the regulations, what's the rules. Do you allow them to text and drive? Do you allow them to smoke on the job? At the end of the day you want to have an employee handbook that spells out everything in the business exactly what's expected of them. Have them sign that before you ever allow them to work, even before they come on for a trial period, they need to sign that. So that way if anything goes bad at the end of the day you can go back to that document, hold it up and be like, you signed this, this is yours and you agreed to these terms.
