Ten HR tools every home service business should have.
Written for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping and pest control companies between ten and a hundred people. What you actually need, in the order to buy it.
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The stack, in the order you should build it.
Most home service businesses buy tools in the wrong order, usually because a vendor called at the right moment. This is the order that works, and the honest note on which ones you can put off another year.
Applicant tracking
The one that pays for itself first, because every other people problem starts with hiring.
Background and licence checks
Running EPA, applicator and driving records without a folder in a filing cabinet.
Onboarding and paperwork
I-9s, W-4s and handbooks signed before day one instead of during it.
Payroll and time tracking
Where field hours and payroll should meet, and what breaks when they do not.
Scheduling and dispatch overlap
What your field service software already does, so you do not buy it twice.
Performance and reviews
A one-page approach for companies that have never done a formal review.
Training and certification tracking
Expiry dates that surface before an audit rather than during one.
Safety and compliance
OSHA basics for a company without a safety officer.
Benefits administration
When it stops being worth handling yourself, usually around 25 people.
Employee communication
The last one to buy, and the cheapest to get wrong.
You do not need ten tools on day one. You need the first three, and to stop doing those three in a spreadsheet.
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Written for the person doing this on top of their real job.
Owners
You are picking software between service calls and every vendor says theirs is essential.
Office managers
You inherited the tools somebody bought three years ago and half of them are unused.
Operations leads
You are scaling past thirty people and the spreadsheets have stopped holding.
“We were paying for four things that overlapped and missing the two we actually needed. This laid it out in an order that made sense for a company our size.”