Even as large corporations such as Target are posting forecast-beating earnings and reporting little difficulty attracting talent, smaller businesses say they’re struggling to hire workers, hurting their bottom line.
A new survey by Salesforce (pdf) shows that 53.3 percent of small and medium-sized businesses said staffing issues have been a drag on revenues. For those businesses that said hiring woes were pressuring profits, 56.6 percent reported a hit to revenues of at least 11 percent.
