It’s now been over a week since any work was done on my house which is very frustrating given how close it is to being finished. However, I think I know the reason why.<\/p>\n
The builder I’m employing heavily uses sub-contractors and probably only has a few direct employees of their own to perform basic functions. When it comes to more specialised activities – roofing, plumbing, electrical work, possibly even the groundwork for foundations and putting in septic tanks – they call in outside firms.<\/p>\n
One of the reasons for this is the French system of employment which, unlike those in northern and other parts of Europe, makes it difficult and costly to fire people – for example, to reduce a firm’s workforce and costs if business falls off for some reason. This means therefore, that firms like my builder are very reluctant to take on new employees, even when their volume of work is expanding, for fear of getting caught out should business fall away again.<\/p>\n
So that’s why they try to reduce their risk by hiring in sub-contractors. The problem though, is that the sub-contractors have the same mindset and are also reluctant to take on extra employees, even when business is booming as it seems to be at present with the orders that were placed for new rural houses post-Covid. So builders like mine who want to call in sub-contractors as and when needed either have to plan ahead very carefully and risk not being ready when the sub-contractor turns up to do their work, or are placed in a queue.<\/p>\n
My own experience suggests that builders like mine are not that good at planning ahead so that’s why their clients, like me, end up constantly seeing work on their houses starting and stopping and being subject to constant delays. And that’s why almost every morning when I look out of my caravan nothing is happening on site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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