Sitting, preferably. Want them to be comfortable.
If you are a small business owner that is a big expense and an unproductive one.
Think about it. If you have 24/7 protection, which you would want if you are worried about looters these days, that is $1680 a week.
Those $1680 dollars do not generate sales or production of goods. The guard stands or sits in your facility and provides a deterrent to looters.
The article doesn’t mention if that guard is armed or not. So maybe the guard does not even provide protection.
A small business owner will think long and hard about hiring a guard service because that money is going to come off the bottom line with no foreseeable return on the investment.
If the business contracted for the guard long term they might get a cut on insurance but it would not come close to covering the expense.
If you are a small business owner that is a big expense and an unproductive one.
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Excellent points...
Also think of it as in home care.
If a person needs in home care 24/7 one may think they are getting a ‘bargain’ at 10 bucks per hour but that works out to about 88 thou a year.
And at 10 bucks you will probably have to feed and house them - then hope someone doesn’t come after you for OT..
Looking at it more ‘broadly’ just (at least in your mind) what kind of ‘medical/patient care’ one could get for 10 bucks an hour....and figure if the person works for an agency, they are getting far less
Maybe the cost to protect these properties is when no one is on site, which would reduce the costs. This assumes the business owner would be protecting themselves the rest of the time.
Sitting, preferably. Want them to be comfortable.
It’s would be no problem in CA. Most all the smaller biz are owned by Muslims and the Mexican cartels who put the extended family into running their cash laundering scams.
They only hire their own anyway so it’s no big deal to get them to do it. Half are sleeping/living in the back anyway...