{"id":21016,"date":"2019-11-03T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21016"},"modified":"2019-11-03T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T11:09:20","slug":"when-you-know-its-time-to-hire-your-first-employee-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/when-you-know-its-time-to-hire-your-first-employee-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Know It\u2019s Time to Hire Your First Employee [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p
class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you\u2019ve put more hours into your business than you\u2019d care to admit, it can be hard to ask for help and hire others onto your team. Your company is your baby. Why would you want to bring someone else in?&nbsp;<br
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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s clear that many small business owners are overworked. A recent <a
href=\"https:\/\/www.score.org\/blog\/how-hard-small-business-owners-work\">study<\/a> found that only 57% of small business owners take vacations, and, even when they do take vacations, a good chunk still work when they\u2019re supposed to be taking some time for themselves. If you feel like you\u2019re always working and can never catch a break, or if you\u2019re turning down work because you\u2019re just too busy, you might want to consider hiring some help.&nbsp;<br
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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or, maybe you need some specific help. As much as you may not want to admit it, you can\u2019t do everything at once. You can\u2019t be a web developer, graphic designer, communications professional, and business professional all at once.&nbsp;<br
\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p
class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hiring another employee can be incredibly helpful, especially since the average small business generates $100,000 in revenue per employee. But it also comes with plenty of risks. Make sure you\u2019ve shopped around for the perfect <a
href=\"https:\/\/www.fundera.com\/blog\/hr-software-for-small-business\">HR software for your small business<\/a>. Finding and hiring an employee can take 42 days or more.&nbsp;<br
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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a
href=\"https:\/\/www.fundera.com\/\">Fundera<\/a> laid out some clear signs it\u2019s time to <a
href=\"https:\/\/www.fundera.com\/blog\/hire-your-first-employee\">hire your first employee<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br
\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please include attribution to fundera.com with this graphic.<\/strong><br
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\/><a
href='https:\/\/www.fundera.com\/blog\/hire-your-first-employee'><img
src='https:\/\/assets-blog.fundera.com\/assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10111750\/is-it-time-to-hire-your-first-employee_IG.png' alt='7 signs it's time to hire your first employee ' width='720' border='0' \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p
class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p
class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author<\/strong>: Meredith Wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p
class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editor-in-Chief, Fundera&nbsp;<strong>Bio<\/strong>: Meredith Wood, Fundera\u2019s editor-in-chief, has specialized in financial advice for small business owners for almost a decade, and is sought out frequently for her expertise in small business lending. \n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019ve put more hours into your business than you\u2019d care to admit, it can be hard to ask for help and hire others onto your team. Your company is your baby. Why would you want to bring someone else in?&nbsp; It\u2019s clear that many small business owners are overworked. A recent study found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21020,"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21016\/revisions\/21020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247income.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}