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Article: Small Businesses Getting Ready to Hire.
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- Investment Business Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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The nation's unemployment rate may have hit a 26-year high in September but many small business owners are getting ready to hire.
The latest Intuit Payroll survey from Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) finds that nearly half of the small business owners surveyed, 44 percent, are planning to hire new employees within the next 12 months. At the same time, many small business owners believe that benefits are key to attracting new hires but are finding them difficult to afford.
"Economists may have declared the recession over, but on Main Street, unemployment figures are what really matter," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president of Intuit's Employee Management ...