If you have a large shop with high sales volume, increase designer productivity by switching them from hourly employees to paying them on a per-piece basis. Remove any non-design tasks from their workload. “Per-piece designers only design and get paid a percentage of the retail value of every design they create,” says Chris Drummond, AAF, PFCI, of Penny’s by Plaza Flowers in Philadelphia. “Those employees are 100% incentivized and very entrepreneurial and extremely productive.”
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