Dude, I am also a swedish entrepreneur and I don't have the same expectation that I can shit on my colleagues (yes, i don't see them as resources to maximize my

Dude, I am also a swedish entrepreneur and I don't have the same expectation that I can shit on my colleagues (yes, i don't see them as resources to maximize my exit). I wrote elsewhere in this post, that currently 25% of my company will be on parental leave this year (including me and 3/4 of us are male). You know what, we plan around it. Get over it - that's the system here. And why would you bring in a consultant - if you're a startup you're growing, continually hiring FT people. That's what we're doing. We hired somebody who was going to be on parental leave in 6 months, because they were good. The govt pays when they are off. Then they come back, and they're still good.