So you can get the loan to cover up 2.5x monthly payroll, use that to pay your employees for 8 weeks, then the loan is forgiven? Is there any reason a software company < 500 people wouldn't want to or couldn't take advantage of that?
The "affiliation guide" specifies what counts as a small business and prevents a single organization from creating many smaller companies to get SBA benefits. I'm not sure if it changed for these new benefits.
Here is the guide: https://www.sba.gov/document/support--affiliation-guide-size...