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Many companies have held back on hiring as they try to manage higher input costs and weakening orders.

For the rest of 2023, they “lived like monks,” resisting outside hires and focused maniacally on building a user-friendly tool.

Some two-thirds of companies said ”managing head counts is still the norm at their companies, as opposed to hiring.”

Just a couple of years ago, countries such as Mali and the Central African Republic were hiring mercenaries from the Kremlin-aligned Wagner Group to protect their leaders and fight their enemies.

So he hired this helper to do household chores, cooking and for companionship part time.