Word: blohm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonn government still ended up with what one official called a "most valuable" cache of documents and four other prisoners: Alfred Bahr, 58, a physicist in the solar-power division of Munich's Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm aerospace plant; Karl Hauffe, 65, head of the organic chemistry department at Göttingen University; Günter Sänger, 32, an engineer with the giant Siemens electronics corporation in Coburg; and Gerhard Arnold, 43, an executive of a Munich computer company. None was as big a fish as Günter Guillaume, longtime former aide to Chancellor Willy...
...system, called Gleitende Arbeitszeit (staggered work time) was begun four years ago by the aircraft and electronics firm of Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm, mostly because company bosses saw no other way of breaking the thick traffic tie-ups that developed when all employees tried to arrive at 7 a.m. Staggered hours have since been adopted by some 2,000 other firms, which find that the new freedom pares absenteeism by as much as 20% and actually increases productivity...
About 40 U.S. companies have started a four-day week of nine-and ten-hour days; they report that productivity is up and absenteeism and turnover are down. In Germany, Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm has achieved much the same results by allowing its workers to choose, within limits, their own hours of work. The men themselves arrange their schedules without disrupting the production process. The practice is so successful that 50 other German companies have copied it, and unions are asking for a raise because of increased output...