Do You Need More Staff For Business Expansion

Mika

VIP Contributor
Scaling your business means you are selling more products, you are selling to the newer markets and you are branching out. There will be a lot of work and a lot of businesses start hiring new workers when they decide on scaling. Hiring new staff will come with a price. However, scaling your business doesn't require an army of new employees, you can actually optimize your existing team's output with smarter workflows and technology. Instead of just adding staff, focus on leveraging your existing resources (including your staff). Aggressive marketing and production improvements can fuel your growth without adding to your payroll.
 

Axis

Banned
One of the main goal and desire of a small scale business owner is obviously for his or her business to move into the large scale category of businesses. Business expansion is a good desire to have but in order to expand in business you should not only be concerned about the resources aspect of business expansion but also be concerned about the staff and labor aspects of business expansion. Business expansion simply means that a business organization will carry out more task that it's used to before. And in order to carry out this task in an effective and timely manner more hands will be needed.

So if you were to ask me whether staffing is an important part of business expansion? I would say yes! A business manager should therefore be careful when choosing staff in his or her business because poor staff selection can lead to business the railing from it go and objective.
 

moonchild

VIP Contributor
Well I think it all boils down to the type of businesses you're running and your strategy or personal beliefs on scaling but generally you're going to be needing more staff and if you're tech savvy and your business is online you can basically build some bots to help automate some part of the business and save the cost of hiring other people.

But if you're in the supply chain or the service industry the you definitely need to hire more hands and also spend quiet a bit on training and salaries but if the business is growing it should definitely accommodate all of that.
 

Jasmine

VIP Contributor
Businesses are expanded in a hope to earn more revenue. You can earn more revenue form your business only when you are selling more. Selling more means you either sell more from your existing product lines or create new products. In other words, if you were selling 100 products, you need to sell 200 products. If you were selling 5 different products, you will have to add 5 more products to generate more revenue. Do you think things like these will be possible without hiring additional staff?
 
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