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Companies are packing workers in like sardines
CBS News' Moneywatch ^ | March 9, 2015 | Kim Peterson

Posted on 03/09/2015 7:21:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another problem created by Obamacare


41 posted on 03/09/2015 10:18:20 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: American Guesser; 2ndDivisionVet
RE:”There are rich dudes out there who need to get richer, and if I have to work penned up like some animal to make that happen, so be it. I love the positive spin this article puts on workers losing space and privacy, as if we like it.”

There are some chinese, Indians and Mexicans who would (will) be happy with what you have now, and for less pay.

42 posted on 03/09/2015 10:28:32 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs; American Guesser

Much, much less. And there are robots being designed and built right this minute who will not be paid at all.

Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts


43 posted on 03/09/2015 10:32:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Zeneta; Political Junkie Too; ProtectOurFreedom

Now show them Idiocracy and Being There.


44 posted on 03/09/2015 10:33:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; American Guesser
RE:”Much, much less. And there are robots being designed and built right this minute who will not be paid at all.
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...”

How about raising taxes on the robots?

I bet they are not Obamacare compliment.

Using that robot loophole in Obamacare.

45 posted on 03/09/2015 10:36:44 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What crap. I never had 10x15 square feet of office space. Generally somewhere between 55-85 square feet, if that.


46 posted on 03/10/2015 12:20:18 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Bra-zil.....


47 posted on 03/10/2015 12:21:00 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

$3.69 a dozen. I don’t buy them unless they are under $1.69.

I usually get them for 10 for $10 on special at one of the stores I frequent. They usually have the sale once a month. buy several dozen at a time.

Sometimes I ‘splurge’ on Egglands Best when they go on sale for$2. They sometimes have a $.75 coupon that is doubled and the eggs cost $.50.


48 posted on 03/10/2015 12:43:35 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: null and void
Makin' cigarettes in a turd-world country (Indonesia).


49 posted on 03/10/2015 1:04:09 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: combat_boots

This is another phase in office dynamics. Soon enough someone will reprise Henry Ford and realize that adequate space and light and air substantially improves worker performance. When employers begin to lose good people for better working conditions the current trend will reverse


50 posted on 03/10/2015 2:22:47 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not explained:
Since February 2008, the size of the U.S. population has grown by 16.8 million people, but the number of full-time jobs has actually decreased by 140,000.


51 posted on 03/10/2015 3:45:40 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
i know a guy who's a corporate architect. A lot of them are going to "open office". Essentially, they're bringing back the fancy equivalent of rows of folding tables and plopping chairs on either side. Rows and rows of workers sitting elbow to elbow facing other workers sitting elbow to elbow. They're bringing back the prior century essentially.


52 posted on 03/10/2015 3:55:56 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Vendome

factories are factories. hosptials are factories and so are call centers.


53 posted on 03/10/2015 3:59:49 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
North American offices will average 151 square feet per worker,

That's about right with the size of the workplace units being supplied to most government workers (L-shaped desktop with one set of drawers for files and overhead storage). The bright side is that such units only allow so many workers in a set space....

54 posted on 03/10/2015 5:15:59 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was more than happy in a 10x10 cubicle.


55 posted on 03/10/2015 7:32:57 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes this is true and a good thing for Dallas.

The high speed rail is going to shake up the game in a big way I predict. The North side of Houston will become an extension of Dallas I figure. North or West is the only way Houston can go. West isn’t that attractive. Dallas has just about swallowed up 75 north all the way to Sherman. The sprawl just seems to have no limits.

Right now there is a plague of wishful thinking in Houston. They are still breaking ground on new buildings.

I figure the next thing for Houston and New Orleans is opening up the Panama Canal to larger ships. Funny though, China imports may ease a little by then. I predict New Orleans will win the biggest part of that gain though because of river accesss but then again, you don’t see containers moving by barge. Mostly by train to the intermodal transport centers like the one on the south of Dallas.


56 posted on 03/10/2015 8:08:49 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Adversity does not build character so much as expose it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This would drive me nuts. So thankful I don’t have to work in an office...except the nice ones I made for me.

They are treating people like animals. Ain’t globalism great?!


57 posted on 03/10/2015 11:36:02 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I represent tenants to lease office space and there’s a bit of a conundrum in the suburbs where you really need 5-6 parking spaces per 1000 SF leased (based on reducing SF per person) and many have 4 and some have less.

So....as a tenant you have to look at all the metrics when deciding how many square feet to take.


58 posted on 03/10/2015 2:48:02 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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