PE roll-ups make it easier to recruit disaffected technicians

Plumbing operators say private equity ownership has made recruiting talent easier because employees at PE-acquired companies are unhappy and turned off by PE, making them easy to poach.

“P .E. is making this a lot easier because people do not want to work there and they're probably turned off to PE for the rest of their life, unless they have a choice, like no choice.”

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