Employees cost far more than most think, and that cost is the employers number one expense. Add it all up and $9-$12 comes out more like $16-$22. But the upfront costs in hiring a new person is the real kicker.
Advertising, interviewing, HR and IT onboarding, extra unemployment taxes on the initial income, training, all that stacks. Also, consider how useless a new employee is vs. one that’s been on task for some time. And that employee is taking valuable time from an experienced worker!
Would being short one employee really cost thousands an hour? Can’t think of such a retail space. ?
But yeah, low-end employers are damned short sighted. Given the upfront costs of new employees, shouldn’t they be working hard to retain folks? Speaking of costs, at the employment firm I worked IT at, we’d charge higher rates for payroll if a company had shit turnover. We knew we’d be paying extra unemployment insurance, and don’t quote me, but I think there was a higher worker’s comp cost. In any case, if turnover was high, that was a sign of a shit employer who would be a shit client.
I worked in a destination outdoors chain. My departments I ran at different points were firearms and marine electronics. Both were high-dollar purchases that usually involve 1:1 interactions with workers.
When someone doesn’t buy a $4000 sonar unit because nobody was on the floor in that department it hurts.
The higgher-up managers came out of from other departments like clothing or gifts. They were used to departments where the only job of the staff was to re-stick stuff and point out bathroom locations. You don’t need an expert salesman to help you pick a shirt or novelty mug.
They didn’t understand that people coming to the store to buy sonar or a trolling motor don’t know what they need to know to pick a unit. Or that someone isn’t going to wait an hour in line for a salesman to talk to them about buying a gun that they legally cannot buy without going through the salesman, when they could go to 5 different stores in the same town and get service immediately.
To be fair, many of those managers didn’t last long. I personally got HR to fire the AGM when one of my salesman let me know that the AGM forced one of my people to sell a gun to someone after another employee had refused to sell it to them because they thought it was a straw purchase.
Employees cost far more than most think, and that cost is the employers number one expense. Add it all up and $9-$12 comes out more like $16-$22. But the upfront costs in hiring a new person is the real kicker.
Advertising, interviewing, HR and IT onboarding, extra unemployment taxes on the initial income, training, all that stacks. Also, consider how useless a new employee is vs. one that’s been on task for some time. And that employee is taking valuable time from an experienced worker!
Would being short one employee really cost thousands an hour? Can’t think of such a retail space. ?
But yeah, low-end employers are damned short sighted. Given the upfront costs of new employees, shouldn’t they be working hard to retain folks? Speaking of costs, at the employment firm I worked IT at, we’d charge higher rates for payroll if a company had shit turnover. We knew we’d be paying extra unemployment insurance, and don’t quote me, but I think there was a higher worker’s comp cost. In any case, if turnover was high, that was a sign of a shit employer who would be a shit client.
I worked in a destination outdoors chain. My departments I ran at different points were firearms and marine electronics. Both were high-dollar purchases that usually involve 1:1 interactions with workers.
When someone doesn’t buy a $4000 sonar unit because nobody was on the floor in that department it hurts.
Ah! Never worked high-stakes retail like that. I get it now.
Holy shit your bosses must have been absolutely fucking brain dead pieces of shit. Why not just tell them they were mistaken and lie?
The higgher-up managers came out of from other departments like clothing or gifts. They were used to departments where the only job of the staff was to re-stick stuff and point out bathroom locations. You don’t need an expert salesman to help you pick a shirt or novelty mug.
They didn’t understand that people coming to the store to buy sonar or a trolling motor don’t know what they need to know to pick a unit. Or that someone isn’t going to wait an hour in line for a salesman to talk to them about buying a gun that they legally cannot buy without going through the salesman, when they could go to 5 different stores in the same town and get service immediately.
To be fair, many of those managers didn’t last long. I personally got HR to fire the AGM when one of my salesman let me know that the AGM forced one of my people to sell a gun to someone after another employee had refused to sell it to them because they thought it was a straw purchase.