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

Your Team Keeps Quitting Because of Your Off Season

29 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Mike Andes highlights the chronic labor turnover problem that plagues home‑services businesses. He explains how a pronounced off‑season causes leads to plunge and crews to abandon their jobs, forcing owners to rebuild a new field team every spring. This constant churn prevents continuity, erodes quality standards, demoralizes the remaining high‑performing staff, and creates a draining cycle of rapid hiring and intensive training. Andes argues that the relentless need to take new hires from zero to competent in a week or two is a primary reason many owners quit the industry.

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Let's talk about labor. Right now, they have a lot of turnover and they have new crews every year. Very difficult to scale a business in home services when the people actually doing the work and solving the actual problems for your customers out in the field are being changed out every single season because it's very hard to have continuity. It's hard to have high quality standards. And if it's a lot of churn, it's also really demoralizing to the team members that are really good 'cause they just constantly, get used to working with great team members and then they leave a few months later. This is a huge stemming problem of the off-season. If you have a huge off-season problem where you have leads drop off a cliff and all of your crew leaves and you have no one to come back in spring, again, you will have to rehire a whole new crew every single spring rush. It's very draining as an owner. It's one of the biggest reasons I see people get out of home services. It's so draining to retrain and find new team members every single spring rush and take them from 0 to 60 in like a week or two. Very difficult.