Muscatine

New staff is not hired, in most cases, after you get new projects.  New staff is hired, in most cases, in anticipation of new projects.  New projects are not normally accepted, as best business practice, unless you know you already have the staff that can handle the job.   You really cannot bid on a project, in good faith, hoping you will be able to recruit and retain the proper resources.

So if you want to get a job for an air force base in Oman which will require 10 or 15 people, you would hire them before you tried to get the job and have them sit around doing nothing until you got that job, or failing that, got another comparable job sometime later?

You can run your business that way, but it's not how Stanley does it.

Msmal, I suggest you have a talk with someone in managment at Stanley's and find out how many temp engineers they have on call for any anticipated contracts? Jobs at HON building furniture is a far cry from all that is entailed in the planning and executing of the contracts that Stanley's are awarded. If a temp worker does not construct an office chair or a file cabinet properly is so very differnt than any of the Stanley's projects. Probably almost as much professional work goes into the bidding for the contract as the execution of the contract.

I know how Stanley's did the one I worked on. And it was not a design-build project.