I recently wrote this unique article regarding corporate downsizing and how it will affect home buinsess. I thought you might like it.
How Corporate Down Sizing Can Help Your home business
Most of us know someone working in corporate America. The sad fact
is, being a corporate employee in today’s economy is a risky venture.
We continually hear of companies who are either down sizing or sending
jobs overseas. For the corporate employee, it’s a fearful situation
not knowing how long your job is going to last.
Most people see corporate down sizing as a bad thing. Even though I
don’t see layoffs as a good thing, I believe it will have a positive
affect on the lives of many former corporate employees, the American
economy and the home business market.
Let’s look back at some recent American history. This country was
originally built, by the small business owner - the work at home
business owner. Think about it - in the early days, farmers and
ranchers worked their business earning their lively hood from home.
Shop keepers, hotel owners, saloon owners, black smiths - these were
not corporate run businesses, but family owned businesses.
In the early 1900’s there was a shift in American business. Through
American ingenuity, visionaries found better and easier ways to
complete work tasks. A great milestone was marked when Henry Ford
created the production line to mass produce the automobile (It’s
ironic that Ford Motor recently announced a huge reduction in its work
force). Suddenly employees were needed to work for these growing
companies, and many left the family owned business to work for someone
else. The industrial revolution was born.
Young people who watched their parents works long hours in the family
business were attracted to the freedom working for someone else. They
saw the earning potential and the personal growth opportunities
provided by these growing companies. Young people started leaving
home, and the family business with the dream of a brighter future.
There was a transition from self employment to working for someone
else.
As time passed companies started competing for employees, offering
better pay and better benefit packages in order to acquire and retain
the best employees. There was a time, not long ago, when you signed
on with a corporation, if you worked hard, you would taken care of you
for the rest of your working days. You could count on retiring with
that company when it was time, with a retirement plan that would
sustain you through your golden years.
Today, in the U.S things are changing again. Corporations are not as
“employee friendly” as they once were. Corporate layoffs are
happening at an alarming rate. Many companies are moving jobs
overseas - jobs that just a few years ago were in high demand in the
United States. Corporations are being mis-managed, leading them into
bankruptcy. Retirement plans are being scaled back or eliminated all
together. This has lead to dissatisfied employees who are now
starting to wonder what their future holds. They are wondering if
they will be employed a year, a few months, over even a few days from
now.
Please understand, I am not criticizing corporate America. I’m not
one of those people who think corporations are bad and evil. I
believe they are accountable to stock holders whose may concern is the
bottom line. If stock holders aren’t receiving a profit, things have
to change, costs have to be cut. The quickest and easiest way to cut
costs is to get rid of employees, or move some jobs overseas.
Actually, I believe this U.S. corporate trend will be good for the
U.S. and for individuals who once again want to work for themselves. I
believe this country has lost some of it’s entrepreneurial spirit and
has lost some of its inventive creativity due to reliance of
individuals on corporate jobs. As more creative individuals are
forced out of corporate America and forced to find creative ways of
feeding their families, I believe we will experience a technologic
boom. We will recapture some of our entrepreneurial spirit.
I also believe it will create a boom for the home business industry.
Many of those down sized corporate workers are not going to want to
jump back into corporate America where they are at risk once again.
Nor do I believe they will want to put in the long hours of a brick
and mortar business.
I believe they will be looking to make their living from home, and
most will be looking to take advantage of the internet to leverage
their time and money in building their home business.
For those of you already working from home, I encourage you to reach
out to this largely untapped market. Show them what you have, help
them start the transition to a home business now, so they can leave
corporate America on their terms.
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Mike Gates is a 17 year corporate America casualty, with the desire to
help those trapped in the corporate world to escape. Make sure you
get his free brand-able report that you can use to showcase your offer
to this untapped market. http://www.whoismikegates.com