{"id":1384,"date":"2023-04-20T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:15:27","slug":"employee-numbers-up-at-some-cannabis-msos-despite-challenging-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2023\/04\/20\/employee-numbers-up-at-some-cannabis-msos-despite-challenging-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Numbers up at Some Cannabis Msos Despite Challenging Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of\u00a0widespread layoffs\u00a0at cannabis companies across the United States has dominated headlines, but an analysis of employee counts at America\u2019s largest multistate operators shows several actually grew their payrolls last year.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that employee payrolls were up for some marijuana MSOs at the end of 2022 but down for others underscores how several factors can play a role in determining a company\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>Those factors include geographic footprint, taxes, operating costs and capital availability, experts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe present moment is the Great Rationalization for the industry,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/paulpjosephson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Josephson<\/a>, a New Jersey-based partner and leader of the cannabis industry group at the Duane Morris law firm, told\u00a0<em>MJBizDaily\u00a0<\/em>via email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrice compression and profitability varies tremendously by state and even within a state. So smart operators are taking a hard look at where they are investing their human capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That means winding down operations in some areas and investing in others with more opportunity for revenue growth.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this article, please <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/employee-numbers-up-at-some-cannabis-msos-despite-challenging-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the <em>MJBizDaily<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of\u00a0widespread layoffs\u00a0at cannabis companies across the United States has dominated headlines, but an analysis of employee counts at America\u2019s largest multistate operators shows several actually grew their payrolls last year. The fact that employee payrolls were up for some marijuana MSOs at the end of 2022 but down for others underscores how several factors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2023\/04\/20\/employee-numbers-up-at-some-cannabis-msos-despite-challenging-conditions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Employee Numbers up at Some Cannabis Msos Despite Challenging Conditions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[627,975,126],"ppma_author":[714],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","tag-employment","tag-layoffs","tag-paul-josephson","post_format-post-format-link"],"authors":[{"term_id":714,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}