At our office (we have 8 employees, 7 are salaried and 6 are engineers) we have a sort of partnership with a sister company who is larger and more mature. We pi

At our office (we have 8 employees, 7 are salaried and 6 are engineers) we have a sort of partnership with a sister company who is larger and more mature. We piggyback off some of their resources to help us manage things like payroll, insurance, HR. We do spend far more time than we'd like on things like office supplies, lunch runs, looking at new office space so we can fit more employees, etc. Some of what we do is building one-off or small runs of custom electronics, so we hired a person from our sister company who was previously emptying trash cans in their warehouse. At first he did our inventory as well as QA for our software products. A year later and now he operates our pick-and-place, reflow oven, milling machine, 3d printer, and tons of other things. People are capable of a lot if you give them the opportunity and some guidance.