Will HumphreysVirtual Assistant & Healthcare Recruiting Expert

How I Solved My Company’s Biggest Problem

Name: How I Solved My Company’s Biggest Problem
Uploaded: 2025-04-11T00:02:45+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: Will Humphreys
Description: Will Humphreys held a company dinner to tackle his biggest worry: giving employees six weeks off without losing people to burnout. A technician suggested…

11 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Will Humphreys held a company dinner to tackle his biggest worry: giving employees six weeks off without losing people to burnout. A technician suggested four 10-hour days with time-and-a-half pay, which solved the scheduling problem.

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So I accidentally landed on this mapping idea. What I did was I pulled everyone together on a Tuesday night for. And I provided dinner. And I said, hey, guys, we're going to solve the biggest problem in our company together. And I'll never forget standing there just being, like, super vulnerable, being like, guys, I don't know what to do. I want you guys to all have six weeks off, but if you can't take it, then you're going to burn out. I mean, this was scary for me because I'm acknowledging that my fear that I don't want them to leave the company, which I. If I hadn't said this ironically, that's probably what would have happened. Would have happened. Yeah. But what was so amazing is that I started facilitating their ideas, and it was a technician that said, well, what if we went to four tens? That would give all of us an extra day off. And if you're willing to pay time and a half, that might incentivize us to start covering each other's vacations.