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title: "Part-Time Hiring Reaches All-Time High Among Small Businesses"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/a5691096-19e5-45ea-874a-77595dc25329
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/articles/parttime_hiring_reaches_alltime_high_among_small_businesses.html
author: "Kerry Pipes"
category: "General"
published: 2023-08-23T08:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-10-31T20:31:23.517Z
image: https://imgs.franchising.com/art/articles/7862_plate.jpg
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# Part-Time Hiring Reaches All-Time High Among Small Businesses

**TL;DR:** Small business operators have reached a new record high for part-time hiring, with 32% focused on hiring only contractors and part-timers, according to the latest Alignable August Small Business Labor Report. The hiring trend is driven by cost-savings efforts to combat labor shortages, lack of new revenue streams, and ongoing inflation and recessionary fears.

*By Kerry Pipes, originally published in Franchising.com on 2023-08-23. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/articles/parttime_hiring_reaches_alltime_high_among_small_businesses.html).*

## Story

Small business operators have reached a new record high for part-time hiring, according to the latest Alignable August Small Business Labor Report . Nearly one-third of all small business employers (32%) are now focused on hiring only contractors and part-timers. Meanwhile, permanent, fulltime hiring has dropped to a record low of just 25%.

The hiring trend boils down to cost-savings efforts necessary to combat labor shortages, lack of new revenue streams, and ongoing inflation and recessionary fears. Here are some of the key findings in the latest report: - Only 25% of small businesses are hiring fulltime, permanent workers - a low for 2023 - and down seven percentage points from June. - The percentage of small businesses implementing hiring freezes and/or layoffs was 43% in July (down four percentage points from June).

That's also a record low for 2023. - Only 33% of small businesses are making as much or more monthly in 2023 as they did this time last year. That means two-thirds of owners are performing worse than they did even in 2022.

- 40% of small business owners say interest rate hikes are taking a toll on their businesses. Many commented that the U.S.

policy of raising rates to combat inflation is backfiring among small businesses. - 55% of small business owners were faced with rent spikes in July, with 15% paying bills that are more than 20% higher than they were just six months ago. - Half of all small business operators (50%) fear a recession if the economic climate doesn't improve soon; 30% claim it's already here.

The results are from a poll of 4,619 randomly selected small business owners surveyed from July 2 to July 31, along with historic poll results from more than 80,000 small business owners over the past 18 months.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- General (sector)
- Kerry Pipes (person)
- inflation (topic)
- Alignable (company)
- recession fears (topic)
- labor report (topic)
- part-time hiring (topic)
- small business trends (topic)

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Originally reported by Kerry Pipes, Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/articles/parttime_hiring_reaches_alltime_high_among_small_businesses.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/a5691096-19e5-45ea-874a-77595dc25329).