I agreee with you about 3rd response. As you said smaller companies will be able to hire workers because there will be a lot of unemployed .

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When the demand is decreased, the company has to reduce supply in order to cut production costs. Laying of workers is the most simplest way to reduce the costs and decrease output in the short run. However, in the long run the factories may be closed.

2) What pressures does a publicly traded company (one that sells stocks to investors) face in times of recession that a small, privately owned business does not?

A publicly traded company is owned by many investors. These investors expects many high returns . If the investors understand that the company is doing badly, many of them possibly may decide to sell their shares.

3) When the global recession is finally over, do you think more people or fewer people will be working for small companies (less than 50 people) than before the recession? What would you rather work for, a small firm or a large one? Why?

As it is said in the question, when the recession is over, small companies will be able to have more workers than big companies. Because, unemployment is quite high and the people are willing to accept lower wages. However, working in a large company will be better. Because, in the future they can pay more money, so I would choose large one.

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Before shutting down the factories, most of the companies lay off their workers. If a countries’ demands reduce, the production costs are also reduced to make profit; and to do that, workers are layed off.

-What pressures does a publicly traded company (one that sells stocks to investors) face in times of recession that a small, privately owned business does not?

A publicly traded company have always more pressure than a privately owned business in a recession. As the satisfaction of the consumers is very important for the companies to keep the consumers consuming from that factories. Privately owned business are not going to consider shareholders’ needs.

-When the global recession is finally over, do you think more people or fewer people will be working for small companies (less than 50 people) than before the recession? What would you rather work for, a small firm or a large one? Why?

Smaller companies will be able to hire workers because there will be a lot of unemployed who will easily want a job even in lower wages, when the recession is finish. However, when economy is fixid, then people will return back to bigger companies to get secure jobs.

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I think your connection of workers and the factor of production is really good. i also agree with your idea about the stockholders for the second question. Good post generally

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Publicly traded company faces more pressure during recession because it has duty to guarantee their shareholder’s safety in the market. For instance, when we look at giant corporations, the owner does not hold all the stocks of company, but there are individuals who hold some proportions of the corporation, which means they are also considered to be the owner of the corporations in some extent. CEO is just representing those people, promising they would work hard to maximize their profit. Therefore, for giant corporations, they have to try to protect that individual shareholder’s money. However, since ownership of company is liked directly to managing company for most of small corporations, they don’t have to think about their shareholders, which let them to face less pressure than giant firms.

After the recession is over, people who are employed in small companies would have to work for small companies for a while, because they are hired and they have duty to finish their work and such. However, if big corporations guarantee high salary and more benefits for the workers, people in small companies would eventually quit their job in small company and would be willing to work for big companies. For me, I think I would rather prefer working for small companies, because there is less possibility to work in high position if I work for big companies, since there are so many intelligent people in big companies. I would rather work as leader in the small company than just employee in big corporations. Also, small companies have possibility of growing up in the future, and I want to do that on my own. End of recession means there would be more demand for goods in the market, which means there is a high possibility of small companies to grow up. So I would rather work for small companies.

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But do you think more people will be employed by the smaller firms than they previously employed?

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Workers are an easier factor of production to replace than capital, so rather than shutting down all the machines, the businesses can just hire the employees back later.

2. What pressures does a publicly traded company (one that sells stocks to investors) face in times of recession that a small, privately owned business does not?

Public companies are constantly pressured by their stockholders to maintain the largest profits possible. If they do not, no one will want to invest in their stock and their business will be hurt. Private companies are able to bear through a period of loss in order to come out stronger on the other side without losing its investors.

3. When the global recession is finally over, do you think more people or fewer people will be working for small companies (less than 50 people) than before the recession? What would you rather work for, a small firm or a large one? Why?

More people will work for smaller companies because the smaller companies are the only ones that are hiring. I would rather work for a small firm.

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What I understood from your post is that when the recession is ongoing then large firms are having a hard time but and smaller firms might have some advantages but when recovery from the recession takes place then large firms overpower the smaller firms again and therefore it would be better to work for the larger firms. I agree with you, overall good post!

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It is good to see people who have same ideas with me especially for the 3rd question.

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-This situation is mostly connected with money. Instead of shutting down a business laying off workers are better. Because if a business is shut down this means they will not have an income, they cannot earn money anymore. Here I want to add this firm can decrease its fixed costs by laying of workers.

What pressures does a publicly traded company (one that sells stocks to investors) face in times of recession that a small, privately owned business does not?

-Publicly traded companies will suffer if there is a recession. Also this can be a risk because the firm cannot meet with their investor's expectations. They have to keep their consumers satisfied.

When the global recession is finally over, do you think more people or fewer people will be working for small companies (less than 50 people) than before the recession? What would you rather work for, a small firm or a large one? Why?

-I think more people will have a chance to work in small companies. They don't work in big companies because in an economic crisis they can lose their jobs and also the company's income can decrease during the economic crisis. I would work for a small company because as I said before if an economic crisis happens I can lose my job in that big company. But if I have a job in a small company there will not be a risk like this and my company will not be affected too much.

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When firms face a decrease in demand for their products it means that their total profit decreases as well. This means that they need to lower their cost of production and the fastest way to do so is to lay off workers in the firm. Another reason is that when there is lower demand the output of the firm is lower and therefore fewer workers are needed to produce the goods.

What pressures does a publicly traded company (one that sells stocks to investors) face in times of recession that a small, privately owned business does not?

Publicly traded companies are companies that offer others to buy stocks and invest in the company, which means that the company has many investors. However when a recession hits then the value of the stocks go down and people want to sell their stocks before they will be of no value. This causes the firm to ‘loose their base’ and are therefore in much more danger to go bankrupt than for example smaller firms that do not depend as much on investors.

When the global recession is finally over, do you think more people or fewer people will be working for small companies (less than 50 people) than before the recession? What would you rather work for, a small firm or a large one? Why?

I would think that more people will be working for larger companies because they can offer people more money and it is well known that most people seek to get the job that pays the best. Although I do think that there will be some people that really think about what happened as the recession hit and I think those people are more likely to work for the smaller firms because there they are more ‘save’ then when working for larger firms.

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Laying off workers is the first thing big companies do when faced with falling demand because it is one of the easiest and least drastic solution. Why would they close down a factory when there might be a chance of keeping it open in they lay off a few workers.

What pressures does a publicly traded company (one that sells stocks to investors) face in times of recession that a small, privately owned business does not?

A publicly traded company must listen to their investors as well as inform them of company decisions. The investors can vote on major decisions within the company whereas within a private company the board of directors can make all decisions without public interruption.

When the global recession is finally over, do you think more people or fewer people will be working for small companies (less than 50 people) than before the recession? What would you rather work for, a small firm or a large one? Why?

I believe that more people will work for smaller companies after the global recession is over because there is theoretically less of a chance of being laid off within a smaller company. This is somewhat risky and unpredictable though because small company can fail easier than large ones.

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you said tha people will fear working for large companies due to the recent recession and thus will gravitate more towards small companies than they did previously. Why would people fear to work for large companies during recession? i think they would rather fear more to work for small companies because there are more chance that small firms to bankrupt.

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Most of the companies lay off their workers before make decision to shut down their factories. If demand of a company’s products fall, then the company should reduce their production and their production costs in order to make profit. To cut down production costs, companies should lay off their workers because of Fixed Plant period, in which workers are the only variable, and land, factories and capital are fixed.

2.What pressures does a publicly traded company (one that sells stocks to investors) face in times of recession that a small, privately owned business does not?

First of all, publicly traded companies are owned by many shareholders. Shareholders buy stocks of the company which counts as investment to the company and expect to have return of the investment. If a company faces time of recession, company will earn less profit or maybe make loss. Then, it will be hard for company to give returns back to shareholders so shareholders will give pressure to the company because they want to have their return. Another problem a company may have when it faces the time of recession is reduced investment. Usually public limited companies run their company with invested money so it will be a big problem to them if people stop to invest money.

3.When the global recession is finally over, do you think more people or fewer people will be working for small companies (less than 50 people) than before the recession? What would you rather work for, a small firm or a large one? Why?

Article claimed that during the recession, big companies fire their skilled workers and small companies hire those fired skilled workers. But as recession finishes, big companies will hire workers again so I would rather work for a big firm than small firm.

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