Struggling Company Goes Out of Way to Help Laid Off Workers
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We often hear small business owners talk about how their employees are like family. And that can make layoffs tricky for people like Katie Tyler. She's the founder and president of Tyler 2 Construction in Charlotte and she often spends more time with her employees than she does with her own husband. The recession has forced Tyler to shrink her staff by a third. But she's doing what she can to ease the pain. WFAE's Julie Rose reports.
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We often hear small business owners talk about how their employees are like family. And that can make layoffs tricky for people like Katie Tyler. She's the founder and president of Tyler 2 Construction in Charlotte and she often spends more time with her employees than she does with her own husband. The recession has forced Tyler to shrink her staff by a third. But she's doing what she can to ease the pain. WFAE's Julie Rose reports.
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We often hear small business owners talk about how their employees are like family. And that can make layoffs tricky for people like Katie Tyler. She's the founder and president of Tyler 2 Construction in Charlotte and she often spends more time with her employees than she does with her own husband. The recession has forced Tyler to shrink her staff by a third. But she's doing what she can to ease the pain. WFAE's Julie Rose reports:
JRTYLER 3:23
A year and a half ago, Katie Tyler had 35 employees and the kind of office space problem small business owners love: (bring in ambi)
(Tyler) "We had every single one of these places filled. And we were looking at how do we get more people in here?" (bring byte down under track, continue ambi and low voice sounds)
Today there's plenty of room for more workers . . .she just doesn't have work for them to do.
"This wa...
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