Kate Spirgen Occupational Overload Summary

The author of “Occupational Overload” is Kate Spirgen. This article starts out on page 40 of the September issue of Lawn & Landscape and ends on page 60. This article is consisted of a compilation of bits and pieces of information that landscape company owners gave about work/life balance, stress, seeking good employees, dealing with the unknowns of owning a business, and how a growing business equates to more responsibility. I was surprised to learn in this article that roughly 68% of the landscape companies have been in business for more than 10 years. This comes from a pool of 500 companies that Lawn & Landscape interviewed throughout the years. This was surprising to me, because I learned in several of my business classes that 96% of new