Businesses all over the world are looking for ways to cut costs. Turin, Italy, has figured out that it’s cheaper to hire sheep rather than people to take care of lawn maintenance in city parks.
Has HR at your company been lambasted over growing payroll? Has there been baaahhcklash?
Now, you can show ‘em that when it comes to keeping costs in check, no one can pull the wool over your eyes!
Hire sheep to eat grass on your property, instead of having it mowed. They’ve done it in Turin, Italy.
The city has hired two herds of sheep at city parks to eat grass instead of hiring landscapers to mow it.
The sheep are expected to save the city nearly $50,000 a year in lawn-mowing fees.
This isn’t Turin’s first attempt at using livestock for landscaping.
Last year it tried a herd of cows at one park.
The cows had to be fired because they produced too much manure.
(HRB Readers, insert your own joke about firing employees who produce too much manure, here.)
