Check out the stats for small business and startups. Human resources
Excerpt: The Intuit Small Business Employment Index is a measure of employment for firms with fewer than 20 employees. It is derived using aggregate and anonymous online employment data for approximately 170,000 small business employers, a subset of the more than 1 million businesses using Intuit Payroll. These smallest employers are important to the economy as they comprise 87 percent of the total U.S. private employer base and employ 19.4 million people.
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