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After five years, employees are given a month off with pay to do whatever they want. The only rule: they can't check their e-mail or call work. "It's part of an informal social contract between managers, employees and shareholders," says Moog. "People need to have a balance between their home and family and work...
...have nearly doubled over the past two years, to $62 million, and the future is so bright that Lush offered to buy Constantine's much bigger former employer, Body Shop International, which has more than 1,900 outlets in 50 countries. After spending much of the '80s working on contract to develop products for the Body Shop, Constantine parted ways before the company got pounded in the U.S. by cut-rate copycats like Limited Brands' Bath & Body Works. In 2001, around the time Body Shop founder Anita Roddick described her creation as a "dysfunctional coffin," Lush's takeover...
WYSS: It's a change in the structure of the job market. First, the payroll numbers miss new-corporation formation. In an economic upturn, that's a big deal. Second, companies are not hiring; they are putting people on contract. Those don't show up in the payroll numbers...
WYSS: We will get back to full employment. There will be more contract freelance jobs, and whether that's good or bad depends on you. Some people's skills are going to become obsolete. It becomes a Red Queen world, where you have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place...
...world cannot allow people to be taught from birth that the path to paradise is through the death of Americans. The U.S. represents 25% of the global economy and 1/3 of global economic growth. Another Sept. 11th-type event on U.S. soil and the U.S. economy would contract severely. The American consumer that has kept the global economy afloat won't be willing to paddle the boat anymore. In turn that would lead to a massive global recession. This is a war we must win: if we fail, the rest of the world goes down with us. Joe Reasbeck Superior...