Ask HN: How do agencies manage employee downtime between projects?

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Client projects come along at different times with different resourcing requirements. If your team comprises permanent employees, you're losing money on every day one of your team isn't working on a project. What are the best strategies to work around this?

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I think it's a combination of:

- Build assumptions about down time into your pricing model - Aim for big projects where adding or removing 1 developer to smooth your resourcing isn't a problem - Always be taking on more projects than you can staff, and use freelancers to fill the gap - Use the down time to to reskill your developers - Have a homegrown product that gets worked on in down time

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