Businessing 1/21/26 | Maybe We're Better Off Alone: The Case Against Hiring in 2026

Businessing with Pat Miller · Jan 21, 2026 · 35m · transcript

The small business growth playbook has always been simple: get busy, hire help, scale up. But what if that playbook is broken?

In this episode of Businessing, Pat Miller presents four alarming reasons why hiring doesn't work the way it used to:

**1. The talent gap is real.** 89% of business owners report they can't find qualified applicants. Not "people don't want to work"—people don't know how to do the work.

**2. Skills-based hiring means you're the trainer.** Employers are hiring for personality and training for skills. That's great—unless you don't have time to run a training department…