Lowered expectations: Companies over-promise, under-deliver on job creation vows

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Bozeman Daily Chronicle - 12/17/2017 - Lewis Kendall - When Kudos&Co., the Silicon Valley-based tech startup behind a new social media app for kids, announced in September it was opening an office in Bozeman’s Cannery District, company officials sang a familiar refrain. The venture would bring jobs to the area. And plenty of them. In addition to one full-time and seven part-time employees, the company had plans to hire a “couple hundred” workers over the coming year, CEO and founder Ole Vidar Hestaas said at the time. Now, however, the company appears to be hedging on those words. Read more @ https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/n ... 5fedc.html