GoKawiilEntrepreneur op-ed urges founders to audit tasks before adding headcount
A contributor column advises business owners to list the ten recurring tasks a proposed hire would actually perform and sort them into judgment, relationship, repetition and coordination categories before approving a new position. The piece argues that hiring is often a default response to growth, even when the real bottleneck is a broken workflow rather than a lack of people. It cites Census Bureau data showing only about 17-20% of businesses use AI, with Sales, Strategy and IT as top adopting functions where automation could resolve repetitive work.
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Many companies default to hiring as soon as a team feels stretched, but adding staff to patch coordination or repetitive workflow problems can lock in inefficiency and inflate fixed costs. With AI adoption still low among most firms, there is significant room for businesses to test automation or redesign processes before committing to permanent headcount, potentially reshaping how growing companies budget and structure roles.
- Categorize a role's recurring tasks as judgment, relationship, repetition or coordination before hiring.
- Judgment and relationship-heavy work justifies hiring; repetition should be tested with automation first.
- Coordination-heavy bottlenecks call for process redesign rather than adding staff.
Source: entrepreneur.com — Meghna Deshraj, 2026-09-15
Published there as: “Before You Hire Anyone Else, Run This Test — You May Have a Workflow Problem, Not a Headcount Problem”
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