In the past, most people worked for small businesses, while more people now work for large businesses. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working for large businesses?

A great part of the workforce has moved from

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small companies to the large ones within

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recent decades due to the changes in economic development.

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endency has many advantages, among which the most remarkable are opportunities for professional growth and

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promotion, as well as downsides

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as formalism and less personal engagement of the employees. To start with, as the role of each employee working in

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arge-scale company is strictly defined, a person is mainly focused on particular tasks which he or she can

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with great efficiency.

As a result

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leads to the overall improvement in a company’s performance as more operations may be completed in a limited period of time.

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, large business is considered to provide more opportunities for the employees to climb the career ladder.

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urrent position, a person may be promoted to another one requiring more experience and responsibility.

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ensures that every member of the staff has the roles in which he or she can work in the most efficient way and develop within the same company for a long period of time.

On the other hand

, working for large companies can still have its drawbacks resulting from the companies’ structure.

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of all, having a strict organizational structure,

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companies are believed to have many formal procedures which have to be followed without any exclusion.

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to find new solutions to some situations, people may stick to habitual acts so as not to violate existing procedures.

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ess personal approach, as they don’t see the final result of their efforts, being just a part of a long chain. To sum up, if it were not for large companies, people would have

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opportunities to develop their competencies and grow professionally.

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drawbacks as weakened personal engagement and red tape should not either be overlooked.