Why Waiting Until 50 Employees to Think About HR Puts You Behind
- Melissa Sodano
- Nov 3, 2025
- 1 min read
“We won’t even think about HR until we hit 50 employees.”
I hear this from founders all the time.
But if you wait until that so-called magic number to think about HR, you are already behind.
To be clear, you do not need a full-time HR hire early on.
What you do need is intentional energy focused on your people, structure, and culture. When no one owns that work, growth exposes every crack.
By employee 51, founders often find themselves cleaning up avoidable messes instead of building momentum.
Bringing in fractional people strategy earlier allows you to keep moving fast without being dragged down by chaos later.
HR is not something you add once growth happens. It is one of the things that makes healthy growth possible.