FRACTIONAL HR FOR TRADES & CONSTRUCTION
Your Crew Problems Are Margin Problems.
There comes a point in business where you know you don't know how to handle all of the HR issues. Boost is the HR team that predicts and stops the bleed before it happens.
our results
$570K+
Legal exposure avoided through proactive documentation and coaching.
+6.8%
Gross margin increase in 8 months.
$420K
Annual losses identified in one 6-week assessment.
5/5
Complex terminations handled over 12 months with no wrongful dismissal claims or escalation.
THE REAL cost
You're Bleeding Money. You Just Can't See Where.
Replacing a tradesperson costs 50-75% of their annual salary by the time you factor in recruiting, downtime, and ramp-up. One wrongful dismissal claim can run $50K-$570K. A crew that isn't being managed properly loses margin on every single job.
None of this shows on a job profitability report. It hides in your job costing, your overtime, your legal bills, and the hours you spend dealing with stuff that should never reach your desk. The owners who call us aren't looking for HR. They want their money back.
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"I can't keep good guys."
Replacing one tradesperson runs $15K–$40K when you count recruiting, lost productivity, and ramp time. Multiply that by three or four a year. That's not a people problem. That's a margin problem with a people cause… and it's fixable.
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"Foremen aren't managing properly."
A poorly managed crew loses 5-10% in productivity per job. Hours blow out. Work gets redone. Nobody can tell you why the job didn't make money. It traces back to day one: no clear accountability, no one enforcing it.
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"We don’t have each other’s backs."
A conflict ignored for two months becomes a formal complaint. A complaint ignored becomes a lawyer's letter. By then you're not deciding. You're defending. And defending is expensive. We've seen single incidents run past $500K.
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"I'm constantly putting out fires."
Track how many hours a week you spend on people issues. Multiply by your effective hourly rate as an owner. That number is what you're paying to do a job that should be handled below you. It keeps you from growing the business.
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"Margins are tight. Labour costs are rising."
Most owners look at pricing first. The leak is usually not there. It's in turnover, rework, and carrying people who shouldn't be on the job. Tighten that and your margin improves without touching your bids. We've seen 4–7% upside in 8 months.
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"I don't trust supervisors to handle issues."
Everything escalates to you. Every write-up, every warning, every hard conversation. You become the ceiling on your own company's growth. And your supervisors never learn, because they never have to. That cycle only breaks one way.
What Happens to Your Bottom Line When This Is Fixed.
One commercial plumbing client added 6.8% gross margin in 8 months. No new hires. No price increases. Just better supervision, cleaner accountability, and people problems that stopped reaching the owner's desk.
That's what this is actually worth.
Status Quo
Terminations handled by instinct, no documentation
Good people leave and you don't know why until it's too late
Complaints blindside you, no paper trail, expensive
Every hard conversation lands on your desk
Jobs lose money and nobody can explain it
You're the last line of defense in your own company
With Boost
Every exit clean, documented, legally protected
Issues surfaced and resolved before someone walks
Caught at the source months before they escalate
Supervisors handle it. You hear about it after.
Accountability is clear. Margin is protected.
Your business runs without you in every people situation
WHAT’S INCLUDED
What Boost Does Inside Your Business
Advises on Terminations & Difficult Exits
Grievance & Complaint Management
Documentation & Discipline Process
Policies & Compliance
Recruitment & Hiring Process
Employee Playbooks & SOPs
Industries We Work In
Construction, Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, Industrial Services, Mechanical, Renovation, Union, Non-Union
Find Out What It's Actually Costing You
In our 30 minute call, we'll look at what's going on in your business, put a real number on what the people problems are costing you, and tell you what it would take to stop it.
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Common Questions
The questions we hear most from business owners who are thinking about this for the first time.
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It means you get an experienced HR team in your corner without the full-time salaries. We fix the gaps in your business, help you pre-emptively plan and are on-call when something is about to go sideways. We handle this for you so you can focus on the parts of your business you are good at.
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Terminations without documentation. Turnover. Bad hires. Rework and margin loss tied to crews that aren't being managed properly. Most of these losses don't show up on an invoice. They hide in overtime and job costing.
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By the time you're calling a lawyer, you're already losing. A lawyer defends you after the damage is done. Fractional HR builds the documentation and process months before anything happens, so you're never in a position where you need to defend.
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Some weeks that's advising on a performance situation before it becomes a written warning. Some weeks it's drafting documentation for a difficult termination, coaching a foreman through a hard conversation, or making sure you’re compliant. Helping you manage performance.
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We structure pricing around what your business actually needs. Most clients have 25 to 150+ employees and have grown past the point where HR works on instinct. Schedule a call and we can provide you with a proposal tailored to your business.