Why You Must Have Job Descriptions | Employment Law

The importance of job descriptions is often undermined by business owners' heavy workloads. When you're juggling a wide range of priorities on a daily basis, including putting out the occasional fire, developing job descriptions usually falls to the bottom of the list.

And why bother writing job descriptions for your current employees? Job descriptions are just for recruiting purposes, right?

Wrong. Job descriptions are important for many reasons, and they affect several stakeholders, including employers and employees as well as recruiters.

Here's why it is worth your time to develop complete job descriptions for each of your employees, existing and yet to come.