Do you think this could be true?

Question

When big corporations want to hire people with family, are they trying to help the country? Because machines make things easier, companies don't need as many people as they used to, and every time there's more and more people. So if you hire a guy with family, you are indirectly helping the people that lives with him/her, you are saving more than one person from poverty. Could this be one of the reasons why some companies choose to hire family guys?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Companies work in a free market economy.  They do what best benefits the company.  It is true that many jobs can now be done by machine but you still need people, with brains, to manage the machines, to fix the machines, to do the work that the machines can't do.

While a company might hire someone with a family and outwardly enjoy the appearance of helping an "entire family" all at once, inwardly they know that a guy (or gal) with a family becomes tied to the job because of the greater responsibility they have.  

A younger person, unmarried, no children, living at home with their parents is a "flight risk", meaning that they will find it easier to pick up and leave a job than the person with a family, mortgage, orthodondist bills, etc.  That employee becomes locked in, tied to the job and easier to manipulate because they NEED that job.  

Less turn over also means lower training costs.  

I know its not pretty... but its the truth.

Answer 2

Actually marital/family status is not a answer allowed on a job application anymore, or a question during the job interview. If a company only hired "family men" then single men could claim discrimination.

I'm sorry if this sounds like a bad answer because your question is so thought provoking and seems so genuine.

Every employee whether married or not has the potential to help many people, an aging parent perhaps, or a brother or sister with a family.

A while back our company laid off several people and it was awful. You felt sorry for the folks that had family, but then they all had others to help support them.

It was the single folks that were the only providers to their children that it hit the hardest.

Everyone did eventually find new jobs and we all still keep in touch you can't keep a good employee down!

Answer 3

I do not beleive companies hire based on family status.

People that have familes are the older with more experience, that would be why.