Why are businesses hiring, but having high turnover rates? For the profit of it.

Why are businesses accepting job applications, but not hiring? For the profit of it.

Starting with the business in turnovers.

Let me explain: Back in Sept '22, on my YT show, Chris' Comments; a show of common sense on common ground, I shared the true purpose of all that Quiet Quitting/ Quiet Hiring/ Quiet Firing that was being recognized throughout the nation.

Businesses receive $4,700 from the state/government. per new hire. After a probationary period, 1 to 6 months, depending the job, the employee gets named an official full time hire for that business and the work tenor starts being recorded. However, most businesses are performing horrible leadership, and are mistreating their employees, sometimes on questionable circumstances, causing a turnover, either by way of a firing or the employee quitting. Whatever of the $4,700 investment on that new hire is not spent, the business manager/owner gets to pocket it. The process is then repeated with the next hire-on, which is why the "Now Hiring" signs have aged, dirty, and sometimes with holes due to harsh weather conditions.

To explain it, mildly: As long as 17% of employees leave within the first 90 days (the probationary period), and the average of 1 year turnover rate that approaches 50%, the business can repeat the hiring-process-multiples-time-investment.

*Note* This, $4,700 investment to an hourly wage employee, goes no differently than to a $75,000 annual employee, which has a $47,500 probationary period investment, received by the state/government.

Now for the, "Accepting Applications", but not actually hiring.

It's now May of 2026, and I finally got to figuring out how the businesses profit off of simply collecting job applications, without having to go through all that Quiet Hiring/ Quiet Firing/ Quiet Quitting stuff.

1. Businesses may receive a fee per application processed. How much, depends on the size of the business and the number of applicants.
2. Some states offer grants or incentives for businesses that assist with job placement, and additional funds may be available, if there's training involved.
3. There's also consultations with local workforce development agencies, and tailored information, because participation in government initiatives can lead to financial support.
4. Maintaining accurate records of job applications and hiring outcomes, because collecting demographic data, demonstrating diversity and inclusion, is also profitable.
5. Businesses also ensure compliances with local and federal employment laws, by way of implementing a structured hiring process that aligns with grant requirements.
6. And finally, staying informed about specific grant opportunities for workforce development initiatives, is profitable for businesses in data collection for future hiring trends and analysis.

So what do we do? There's really only one thing that we can do about this kind of, legalized swindle, and that is to vote for the legislature that would remove the permissions for fees and grants that pay businesses, simply for collecting job applications. What would also be helpful is the lowering of payments and/or grants for the new hire investments. Otherwise, every business would still be hanging their "Now Hiring" signs and banners, and continuously being in the business of hiring and firing people. To put a stop to it, we the people would need our policy makers to tackle those two problems, keep them for making more profit while causing more problems for the rest of us that simply want a job, and start being a part of the stabilizing of our economy.

This wouldn't be too difficult, just fyi. It's simply putting regulation(s) into law. No, the difficulty challenges that would occur in this would be in getting the law(s) into effect. As we can figure out, it'd be primarily do to the money going to the law makers and making sure businesses contributions don't interfere with the process in righting these wrongs.

Currently, even if we use the power of the vote to put in place legislators to put businesses in check, the current administration would make sure de-regulation is a holy word, and regulation is sacrilege. So, this will be an uphill battle, but one of importance.

If any 0f you out there have any indicators on what to look for in our politicians that would want to press regulations on businesses, please give a shout out on the comments section, below.

Thank you for your time.