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What makes a good employer on a dairy farm? - Farmers Weekly
Finding – and keeping – good-quality staff is a growing problem for dairy farm owners and managers. To help tackle this, LIC consultant Piers Badnell
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A really great write up here about keeping staff happy. Cherry picking a part I found funny, people would take a £10,000 pay cut to work for a ‘good’ boss over a crap one.
in other words on an average farm with say 3/4 employees you could be paying £40,000 more than you might be able to ‘get away with’ if you were a nice person!
anyone have anything further to add to this, or top tips?
we have a relatively good staff retention rate, with only the obvious ones leaving (students/first job etc) we have several guys who have been here since they finished college and never left, hopefully that means we’re ‘good’ but does everyone have staff issues or is the problem more with yourself than the staff?