Part of the problem is that commercial rents in places like NY are untenable unless you're somehow managing to squeeze every last dollar out of your employees a

Part of the problem is that commercial rents in places like NY are untenable unless you're somehow managing to squeeze every last dollar out of your employees and customers. But with surveys like this, I also have a hard time believing the responses if they're not backed up with hard data. So unless business owners want to open up their books for all to inspect, I take statements like 'fear they'd have to lay off workers' with multiple cups of salt. I still have little sympathy though -- if your business cannot survive without exploiting people, it shouldn't survive, no matter what the cause of your business needing to exploit people.