Businesses, Leery Of Recession 2.0, Will Do Anything But Hire
From the New York Times’ “You’re The Boss” blog comes a tale of woe from a small business owner: too much work, not enough employees.
It’s a real problem, because this sudden uptick in new business is very real, but if sales start to fall again, the owner will not be happy that he hired more people.
We see this as a different problem, though: While owners, understandably leery of what the economic future will bring, dither, hard workers can’t get jobs and current employees pick up the slack.
At Paul Downs Cabinetmakers, the company mentioned on the blog, Downs authorized unlimited overtime and temporarily moved a sales engineer back to the workroom floor.
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