Business Unemployment

I'll start off by saying that I pretty much find all government statistics fairly unwieldy:  calculation problem.

But, I was wondering, if your logic compells you to gravitate importance to a (labour) unemployment rate, then why wouldn't the same logic compell you to look at some sort of (business) unemployment rate?  Also, how do you guys think (if you could measure such a thing) such a rate would look like over the past century?

Yes, we need to measure all those involuntarily employee-less businesses.

-Jon

Are you asking how many businesses might be unemployed?

How would you define such a thing?  Is a business considered unemployed when it has no clients?  How long does it have to go without clients for?  If a shop is empty for half the day, then is it considered 50% unemployed?

Or perhaps the unemployment rate of a business should be the proportion of time that staff have nothing worthwhile to do.  That would be easy enough to measure for the civil service...

LanceH, I ask the same questions about how regular labour unemployment can be accurately measured.  I have and offer no idea about how business unemployment could be measured.  My question is purely theoretical.