Employee Schedule Flexibility

I learned from my previous employment, that if you can't afford to pay your employees tons of money, you can instead give them more time, which could be flexibility with their schedule, or paid time off, or whatever other creative solutions you might be able to think of.

We train our technicians by paying minimum wage, and immediately after passing training, we increase the hourly rate by $3.  The way we historically handled it, however, was it was on the technician to organize themselves to get through this training.  In this case, the time benefit was that we're not setting the pace for getting a raise.  

I realized recently that in order for this model to be successful, we need to have a person in that role that is used to organizing their own time.  

What I learned was that I need to be more forceful.  Yes, we can still allow our employees to set their own pace, but I will be adding my deadlines to move things forward faster.

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