How does a small business with limited opportunity for wage increases and promotions keep good employees? Ed Kapelczak and his wife Yvonne employ 10 people for their Ramona, California, septic service business Sludgebusters Inc. and restroom business European Portable Sanitation Service. They run the combined companies like a family – “even to the point where we have little squabbles,” Kapelczak says.Kapelczak says new hires who find they don’t like the work usually leave around the three-month mark. Otherwise his employees tend to stick with him long-term. Although he insists he doesn’t have the magic formula for making perfect hires every
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