This got me thinking as the other day I was reading how one company has such a large pool of contractors to hire for various jobs as the logic would essentially be having more people means there are more odds they will never be scrambling to find help. Ironically, it had the opposite effect. When you have so many people that means the majority of them are likely to never get a call from the company. Therefore, they will focus elsewhere. Or, people would get so little work that they pretty much don’t even dedicate anytime to the company and prioritize others over them who do provide them more income.
It’s a good example on how committing to a smaller group of dedicated workers for a business can be better overall even with the risk that one of them may be unavailable for a day. If anything, if people are making a good income and was happy overall they will probably take initiative to make sure they can keep working for you even when there is say schedule conflicts.
This is fairly common sense in a traditional employee setting as companies don’t hire say one hundred people to regularly work four hours a week only. How many people would actually stay? Yet for some reason when it comes to contractors people think it’s the exception. It’s probably better as a business too to have a few people that you can really count on and that is the challenge in the beginning which is to find and retain those people.