Question about Retail Business for Artistic Photographs

Yes, the business will be open and have employees though the sim that owns the business will likely not be there. I set up a sim in one of my games to be a 'banker' - had him open a retail store that is supposed to be a 'bank' that my criminal sims could rob and he hired one employee before I left him to go back to my sims. When my sims went there - the banker guy was not there but there were several employees - even ones the banker had not hired.