The Founder Tax: What Being Your Own HR Department Is Actually Costing You
You didn't start this company to spend Tuesday afternoon mediating a disagreement between two people who used to get along fine. But here you are because there's no one else to do it. That's the founder tax. It shows up as the hours you didn't spend on the parts of the business only you can do.
Is Your Employee Quiet Quitting? Signs Founders Miss
Nobody hands in a two weeks' notice out of nowhere. By the time someone actually quits, they checked out weeks or months earlier. The problem is that disengagement doesn't look like a crisis. It looks like a slightly quieter version of a good employee, so most founders miss it until the exit interview.