This is great food for thought but I'm concerned over the quantity/quality issue. We bill our clients by the hour; the comment "if you can't get your work done in forty hours, hire more people" is a red flag that says, hey, you are either not being efficient enough, or that you are not...
FranMac,
Are you a business owner? Do you not know that business owners on the average, work much more than their employees? Did you know that CPAs also work these hours during a number of important months a year? In a small firm such as mine, the owner may clean the bathrooms, shovel the...
I wasn't asking about if I'm paying a project manager enough; I was asking how many hours do you expect from him on staff?
TygerDawg, asking for more time from an employee may not mean that I need more people; it can also mean that I don't make enough income on the hours he works to produce a...
I own and manage a ten person engineering firm. On the average, I work 60 hours a week at the office. My wife usually only sees me at work (she works there as well as my accountant). For those of you with engineering employees, how many hours do you require them to work? I feel that asking...
