Businesses helping businesses try to chart future after coronavirus - Boston Herald

The business-to-business connection is now becoming an inspirational force.

Companies are pivoting to help small businesses as retailers, restaurants and the rest struggle to survive while health experts warn the peak of the coronavirus pandemic is on the horizon.

“It’s great that others are doing whatever they can do to help out,” said Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts. “It’s a real problem, especially for small businesses. Rent, mortgage and health insurance are all due.

“For better or worse, businesses need to make a digital move and find ways to connect with customers,” Hurst told the Herald Saturday.

With that in mind, various businesses are offering to help.

Lee Hecht Harrison and General Assembly, two companies from the Adecco brand, are jumping in. Through June 30, LHH is offering qualifying small businesses the opportunity to provide furloughed and laid-off employees with 30 days of free access to virtual job-search resources.

“With the growing number of restaurants, bars and small businesses of all types temporarily closing, reducing business hours or scaling back their operations, small business owners and leaders are being forced to make the very difficult decision to temporarily furlough or permanently lay off employees,” said LHH President Ranjit de Sousa.

LHH has a mobile career hub with videos, articles and other resources to help connect people looking for a job with businesses looking to hire. Job seekers can also post profiles to LHH’s Digital Talent Exchange.

“In times like these, when the American public is hurting, I think it’s our responsibility as corporate America to pitch in,” said Kevin McLeod, Massachusetts-based president of Entegee/Adecco.

“This time we are seeing our clients like Medtronics, Boston Scientific, Deere and Raytheon reach out to help the workers and companies less fortunate. I am encouraged to see the corporate responsibility and impressed with the idea that companies are pitching in to help more than ever before,” McLeod said.

His company is helping Medtronics build ventilators and assisting in delivering supplies to hospitals and even helping grocery stores.

“My buddy Nino Lambert owns Lambert’s. He is working 18-hour days making sure the grocery stores in Westwood and Dorchester are well-stocked and customers and employees are safe,” McLeod said. “I talk to him every day. He is a warrior on the front lines. I feel like we need to help him and guys like him.”

John Morgan, LHH chief operating officer, said the focus needs to be on when the economy gets going again.

“The economic rebound from this crisis largely depends on consumer spending. As the industry leader in career transition, we feel we can have a significant impact by supporting small business and (helping) their employees minimize their loss of income by becoming gainfully employed much more quickly with employers that are hiring right now,” Morgan said.

The numbers don’t look good, 10 million Americans have filed for unemployment the last two weeks, and a deep recession is feared — and that’s before the pandemic can be conquered or at least controlled.

But businesses — and consumers — are turning out to help.

If you have a business-to-business tip, email the Herald at newstips@bostonherald.com. We’ll print and post how fellow business people are rolling up their sleeves and offering to help.

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