Count backwards

You're behind, and there's a hard deadline coming.

Year-end taxes. A big job starting. Your busy season.

Take that date, and count backwards.

Say it's ten weeks away.

The usual answer is to hire someone.

According to SHRM, the median time to fill a role like this is thirty-nine days.

That's nearly six weeks with the seat empty, and the work still arriving.

Then they start.

And nobody is at full speed on day one.

A study by Gallup says new employees typically take around a year to reach their peak.

So lay it out.

Six weeks to find them.

Four weeks left on the clock.

They'll be at their best months after your date.

And on their first day, you're further behind than today, because somebody has to teach them.

That's not a reason never to hire.

It's a reason not to hire your way out of a deadline.

Here's the other way.

We take the work on, and finish it before a date in writing.

Miss it, and our fee drops ten percent a day until it's zero.

You don't pay until it's done.

Tell us the date on a quick video call, and we'll send you a plan in twenty-four hours, free.

And if hiring comes out ahead on your numbers, the plan will say so.