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To: escapefromboston

Yes, it is an easy problem to fix. Raise the wage a bit, hire a few more people so they can ease the quota a bit and generally treat the employees like people.

Problem solved at the cost of, probably, less than 1% of profits.


26 posted on 06/16/2021 4:17:54 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr
Yes, it is an easy problem to fix. Raise the wage a bit, hire a few more people so they can ease the quota a bit and generally treat the employees like people.

In 1914, the Ford Motor Company was having a terrible problem. The new "assembly line" was a grind and workers were quitting in droves after a few weeks or months on the line , most of them taking their training and going to Ford's competitors around Detroit, where the conditions weren't so onerous.

Ford's response, raising their wage to $5 a day, is usually seen today as a brilliant stroke of benevolence and economic foresight, allowing his workers to buy the cars they built. But the truth is that it was purely an attempt to retain workers and everything else was PR spin. (The spin also went to Henry Ford's head, convincing him that he was the savior of the average American worker, but that's a longer story.)

59 posted on 06/16/2021 4:58:02 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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