Hello, everyone.
This is Enta.
Lately, I've been swamped with estimates and cost calculations for upcoming projects.
It’s truly a blessing, and I’m absolutely delighted to have a general contractor who brings up such matters.
It seems like there are quite a few openings for slope maintenance workers in the Tokai region.
I keep hearing people around me say things like, “You don’t have much work right now, so let me come cheer you on,” but,
It's difficult for us because we're a company that rarely uses subcontractors.
I think subcontractors can be divided into two categories, but,
1. Contractors who use subcontractors
2. Contractors that perform only in-house construction work
In Case 1, this refers to contractors who sometimes perform the work themselves but also use subcontractors; they are generally large companies.
Among construction companies, they seem to be particularly agile and have a large workforce.
That’s why we get work from all sorts of places, so we have no choice but to use subcontractors.
This is the image of a company that's growing at an incredible pace.
In Case 2, the company carries out construction work exclusively at its own sites using its own employees.
It sounds like we'll be working closely with a general contractor we've had a long-standing relationship with.
Therefore, we rarely take on subcontracting work for other companies; instead, we focus on reliably completing our own projects.
In our case, it would be number 2.
That said, since there are all kinds of general contractors, I end up going here and there, but,
I don't even have the guts to use a subcontractor, lol
It’s pretty tough, isn’t it, especially since I’ve had some trouble with this in the past.
That said, I do wonder what we should do if the number of general contractors keeps increasing even more than it is now.
It seems the number of subcontractors has been decreasing lately, and we’ve been receiving inquiries from various companies, but,
So far, I haven't been able to handle it very well.
That's because management is also required.
If that happens, we’ll have to assign a manager and use subcontractors, so the bar gets raised a bit.
When we do the construction ourselves, it's easy to do that, so...
We’ve entered a rather difficult period.
We need construction management, and we need contractors, too.
I'm currently training some younger employees, but the bar for construction management is pretty high, so it's tough.
I wonder when today’s young people will start working on construction sites as construction managers using subcontractors... lol
It looks like it will take at least three years. (Since we're also handling the construction.)
That's a challenge every company faces, isn't it?
See you later.
