The document discusses staffing in retail businesses. It explains that staffing refers to managing employee schedules and monitoring labor costs hourly is important because payroll is a major business expense. It provides an example where a store that schedules 5 employees for 10 hours per day at $10/hour would spend $500 daily on payroll. However, if the store only makes $300 in daily sales, they would lose money and likely need to reduce staffing to 2 employees to ensure labor costs don't exceed sales.