John Jonas argues new employers shouldn't let benefits stop them from hiring. He says benefits are unnecessary at the start, you build capacity to offer perks later, and people want a job without benefits over no job at all.
If you're just starting out you don't need to offer benefits. There's nothing you need to do. Just hire someone and get them started working for you and pay them what you have agreed to. Second, if benefits are preventing you from hiring someone because it's confusion or it's something else or it's one more thing you have to worry about, stop it. Just hire someone. Benefits are completely unnecessary. When you hire someone and they take something off your plate now maybe you'll have the capacity to think about paying them the 13th month or maybe paid time off or holidays or whatever it is but the point is just hire someone. Do not avoid hiring someone because you're worried about benefits. Benefits are to reward loyal long term people and if you don't have someone working for you, well you don't have anybody to reward. So benefits are a non talking point. The person you're going to hire would much rather have a job with no benefits than no job at all.
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