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Re:Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? W... by hackeraccount on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:42PM (#33101027)
Imagine you have a company. You can get your work force and double your gross or keep half your employees and leave your gross unchanged.

Which would you pick? Keep in mind you don't have to go through the headache of actually hiring people - all you need to do is not fire them.

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Re:Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? W... by micromacrofoot on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:01PM (#33101211)
Employees are my biggest expense by a wide margin. I could drop half my staff and increase my net overnight. I'm not going to double my customers nearly that fast so I'll be burning through payroll in the meantime... especially considering customer acquisition is going to get harder than employee acquisition over the next year.
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Re:Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? W... by hackeraccount on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:39PM (#33127187)
Businesses die of indigestion more often then starvation.
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