Step 1: Convert your employees to salary exempt.
Step 2: Change work hours to 9 with an unpaid hour long lunch.
Step 3: Slowly strip your workforce to bare bones citing recession and economic slowdown.
Step 4: Put up open positions on LinkedIn without any intent of hiring.
Step 5: Slowly increase workload on remaining employees. If they complain, show them your LinkedIn job listings and say ‘nobody wants to work’ or ‘can’t find right people’.
Step 6: If they still complain, ‘promote’ them (with even more responsibilities) but cap pay rise to max 3% annual.
Step 7: Promise big bonuses based on company performance but set your KPI so high that they’ll only get a fraction of that bonus.
Step 8: Eventually increase workload so much that the employees end up working full 9 hours with minimal breaks. VOILA! You’ve now saved an hour’s salary per employee! Now if you have 100 employees, you squeeze 100 hours extra each week! That’s salary of 9 employees 🤑🤑🤑. Use it for a nice deserved vacation or a new Ferrari 🥳
Pro tip: Throw in a nice pizza party every now and then. Don’t forget to tell your employees that we’re a family!