Small business owners are all human beings, we all care about our families, friends and yes to our employees.

In many small businesses, employees become owners of the family after years of working together side by side in the trenches of the war of small businesses.

When revenues decline, employers are reluctant to dismiss or permanently reduce its workforce, preferring to remain at work or over-staffing, pay them to working inefficiently or with a minimum productivity, but the owner is concerned about his welfare and care of their families, as they have for them, hoping that the recession to change when everyone is needed again.

The small business owners often children themselves in the belief that can not ignore this core base of people and that each is necessary for the business to succeed.

There is much to say about how to overcome these problems, but the point here is that if you act irresponsibly to the company, keeping employees that are not needed, but continued because the owner cares, can result in a steady erosion of capital leading to the disappearance of the activity by putting all … on the street without jobs, including those who should have been released previously.

A company must be predominantly led by their numbers. A very large employee base can quickly kill a small business. Holding on to employees because the owner cares about them and their families may be in the business of the whole being forced out of business causing more harm to employees more.

While I appreciate and acknowledge the sensitivity and care shown by an owner willing to keep employees because he cares and not because they need, is a foolish decision that only waste and destroy capital firms.

Be the bastard will call its sacked employees. Save the rest of its employees destruction, except the few that are essential for survival. It is the only responsible act could allow, if you really care about their remaining employees.

Look at the numbers and fires like those required to balance their books as soon as they are clear, there is a momentary drop, and survive.

We are in a deep recession in the long run, reduce their size as soon as possible, and make their cuts used accurately to the required depth, including and especially the excess employees and therefore unnecessary.

Donald Todrin is the CEO and Founder of Second Wind Consultants who specializes in SBA Loan Workouts, business debt forgiveness and solving difficult business problems in general. Don has authored dozens of articles on SBA loan default and debt workouts. Follow Don on Twitter and join his Facebook fan page.

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