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> In addition, and this depends on how old they are, you might not want to make your first hire a person who is likely to have children soon. If suddenly half y
by king_jester 12y ago
> In addition, and this depends on how old they are, you might not want to make your first hire a person who is likely to have children soon. If suddenly half your workforce is on maternity/paternity leave that might sink your business (yeah discrimination based on this is illegal, doesn't mean it isn't a risk anyway).
If your company would scuttled by some portion of your employees taking paternity/maternity leave, it sounds like your company has organizational problems and you should be looking at why your business will fail rather than worrying about employees taking some time off.
- tomjen3 12y agoIf you are twenty people yes. If you are a startup with one employee, you have fewer options.
- king_jester 12y agoI still see this as a sign of an organizational problem for your startup. Naturally you'll have few(er) people and resources as a startup, but if your business plan requires that you constantly have output or be available to make changes, it sounds like you need to have more than 1 employee anyway and take that as a cost of how you operate. Alternatively, as a primary business owner you could take on that responsibility yourself since you reap the greatest rewards of the company success.