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Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

AI may be helping more people start their own businesses, but without many employees

(Credit: Courtesy of TurboAI)

The startup era is back, but this time founders are using AI to avoid one of their biggest early costs—hiring employees. 

A report this week by the Bank of America Institute found the number of “high propensity businesses,” or businesses the Census Bureau identifies as likely to hire employees, jumped by 15.1% year over year in January. Meanwhile, the number of business applications with explicit plans to hire employees fell by 4.4%.

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