It is frequently said that a business is its people. However, the numbers, skills, and experience levels in your present workforce may not be optimal for your organization’s present needs, or its future ambitions.
Determining whether the present moment is the right one to get serious about workforce expansion at your organization, and planning for your business’s likely requirements over the months and years to come, can undoubtedly be tricky.
With all that in mind, we have outlined below the steps you can take to decide whether you have reached the stage when your workforce needs to grow.
Keep a lookout for signs of strain on your present team members
In an ideal world, an organization that needs to expand its workforce would always do so before the proverbial “red lights” start flashing.
However, in the “real world”, it can be easy for key decision-makers within a business to get so caught up in their firm’s core activities, that they fail to see the need to add employees to their team until a relatively late stage.
In the case of your own business, you might see such indicators as:
Falling levels of satisfaction among your existing clients or customers
If your team is short-staffed and spread thin, it could take longer to answer client emails than used to be the case, or errors and defects might creep into the work they do for clients.
This could manifest in a greater amount of negative reviews about your business online, and a heightened number of requests among your clients for corrections or refunds.
Your business needing to rely on outsourcing to a greater extent
If your in-house team’s workload starts to outstrip its capacity to take on and complete its projects by the necessary deadlines, your staffers may need to seek more help from outside vendors.
While this can provide short-term relief, there can also be risks of inconsistency with the quality of the work your clients receive. So, a steadily rising dependance on outsourcing is likely to be a strong sign of the need for internal workforce expansion at your organization.
Your team having to turn down opportunities
One of the last situations that any company wants to have, is one in which a prospective client wants to use their services, but there isn’t enough capacity in the business’s existing team to handle this.
Having to say no to would-be clients that your business would have otherwise liked to take on, means lost opportunities for revenue. This, in turn, could stall your organization’s entire growth journey.
So, your business will have good reason to invest in workforce expansion before it reaches the stage of having to turn people down due to insufficient available people and resources.
If you’re planning the expansion of your business, now could be the time to recruit
As we touched on above, “real-world” conditions might mean that many businesses make a somewhat reactive decision to expand their workforces amid obvious pressures, or an out-and-out crisis.
However, your business might presently be in a somewhat different situation to this. You may have enough in-house capacity to handle your present client commitments, but you might have ambitious expansion plans. This might relate to entering new international markets, and/or developing innovative new products and services.
Whatever the exact nature of any business growth plans you have, if you do plan to grow, you may not be able to rely on the same numbers of employees you have now. You will likely need to think carefully about the permanent and/or temporary hires that will be necessary, and the specialized skills and experiences you will require them to possess.
Our Employer of Record service could be fundamental to your plans to grow
By engaging Aspirock’s own services as an Employer of Record (EOR), your organization could be further helped to grow sustainably, especially if some of the new staff you take on will be based outside your country’s borders.
To learn more about the role we can play in supporting your organization’s workforce expansion efforts during 2025 and beyond, please don’t hesitate to contact us.