Thread: What would get you to hire?

Interesting article on cnn.... Will Obama move help small businesses? - CNN.com

Quotes from article.....
Over the past few years, companies are starting smaller and staying smaller.............
And, firms are originating with small teams. In the 1990s, new firms started with about 7.5 jobs on average compared with 4.9 jobs today."

The most interesting question.....

What happens when small businesses launch but don't "scale?

There are many of us on here running businesses of various sizes. After turtle-ing up for the last year, we are in growth mode. Mostly limited by two things....1) capital reserves....2) hard to find qualified people in the sea of laid off people who let their skills deteriorate and the new grads w/ no co-op or similar experience.

WITHOUT GETTING POLITICAL......

Are you in scale back, stay put, or scale up mode?

What specific policies / tax breaks / things available / etc. would get you to hire?

What opportunity is there for a new business to fulfill these needs?
.....see two immediately, training centers for laid off workers and factoring businesses.

What would get me to hire anyone but students? Repeal of protectionist labour laws, abolishment of labour taxes, when I can fire them any time I see it fit, without compensation or frivolous law suits. When 80-20 rule reverses on its head?

Not going to happen any time soon...

You have the sensible idea - go with the flow and exploit the current clusterfrek, get some government funding for "helping" the situation .