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Employer Obligations
What it means to be the largest employer in a small place, and the decisions that fall differently when everybody affected is a neighbour.
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Hiring When Everybody Knows Everybody
In a small labour market the reference network is better than any process and the pressure to hire the wrong person is stronger. Both facts follow from the same thing.
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The Employee You Have Carried
Somebody who was capable twenty years ago no longer is, and everybody knows. The situation persists because every available option feels like a betrayal, and the delay costs more than any of them.
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Being the Largest Employer in a Small Place
When a firm is the main employer in a town, ordinary business decisions become community events. That does not change what the right decision is, and it changes what is owed alongside it.