PE acquisitions in trades reported to shift firms toward sales over technical training

The guest, keeping his ear to the ground across Canada and the US, reports a recurring pattern that private-equity ownership turns HVAC companies away from technical training toward sales training, diminishing field work value.

“a lot of this has turned into less technical training and more sales training, and it's diminishing the value of what we do in the field.”

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