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Dear Kerri:


I also think it depends on where you make the cut-off of small vs. large. Small could mean anything from an office with just a handful of employees to an office with athousand or so employees all in one office. Someone else might think large can be something with 100 or more employees all the way up to multinational corporations with offices in severalcities in each of several countries.

Your likelihood of working long hours has less to do with the size of the company and more to do with what you are hired to do within that company.I think the only real difference in work environment between a large and small company is how likely you are to know and interact with the top level bosses/owners. This does trickledown into other benefits. In a smaller company, there is more flexibility for discretionary policies, while larger ones tend to have more fixed sets of rules and guidelines without muchdiscretion given to managers/supervisors, because the number of employees makes it hard to evaluate everything on a case-by-case basis. So, for example, in a small company, you might nothave as many vacation or sick days because they can't afford to have employees gone as much, but they might decide to grant an exception if you come down with a particularly nasty illnessthat extends a little beyond your normal sick time. A larger company may hold hard and fast to that cut off and if you take time off beyond the time provided, your job may be at riskFor the most part, I don't think it has much to do with the size of a company, but more how the company is managed. A small company can end up just as rigid with policies as a large one andkeep their employees just as uninformed about what's going on beyond their own department. The ones that do that aren't usually very pleasant ones to work for.



Sincerely Carlos