Sentence examples for taking on staff from inspiring English sources

After years of cutting staff numbers at headquarters, companies often lack people to throw at a special project and loathe the idea of taking on staff who, if all goes well, will be sacked within a year.

Taking on staff is a sign that your business is doing well – but for the small businesses looking to hire this year, the process may seem difficult to negotiate.

Taking on staff is an added cost so businesses tend to be wary of increasing employment until they are confident they need the extra workforce and can sustain it.

Small firms buy machinery to avoid taking on staff.

Mr Cardoso hoped to reform Brazil's archaic labour laws, which discourage employers from taking on staff.

We started taking on staff about 11 months ago and now we are just short of 10 people full-time.

Construction firms have taken on staff for seven months in a row, the longest consecutive period of job creation for five-and-a-half years, as more confident clients give the go-ahead to projects.

An R.B.S. spokeswoman said that while no decisions had yet been taken on staff bonuses, "rest assured that if any bonuses are paid they will be substantially down on previous years".

High street banks have made more than £225m available to help businesses put at risk by the failure of Carillion, while companies have offered to take on staff who were working for the firm when it collapsed into receivership.

The deal marks the second time in four months that Facebook has taken on staff from another social network.

These fears reduce the appetite of business and particularly small business to take on staff.