Taking over my family cleaning company and I want us to hire one person more than we need, vs the bare minimum # of people. I also want to pay them 18 instead of the 17 we currently do.
This will result in at least 1 but maybe 3 months where my family barely makes any profit, but I argue if they and we just tighten up the hatches for that small period of time, use our comfortably sized nest egg, then we can have a team thats stable for more than 3 months at a time AND we can finally grow by being able to aggressively pursue new clients
My family’s very against this and thinks I’m a naive socialist, basically. I’m a little out of arguments
Have you thought of hiring a new person and allowing people to go part time or reduced hours in winter, as well as identifying winter as the time to take time off? Depending on how you do it you can get better efficiency and you might find your employees appreciate the flexibility.