Dyrsmid: Overstate task times to test remote contractor billing honesty
Trent Dyrsmid · Secret tool you should use to manage documenting systems to have contractors run · Aug 10, 2022 · at 11:14
Flowster founder Trent Dyrsmid explains his hiring heuristic for screening remote contractors and virtual assistants.
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“If it's a 15 minute task, if we know it should take 15 minutes, we'll tell them that it takes an hour Because that way the person who comes back and says, yep, took the whole hour. I know that that person's going to milk me for extra labor dollars. Whereas if the other person comes back and says, no, actually I got it done really quick. They just passed an honesty test that they didn't even know they were taking.”
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