Word: costly
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Although Du Pont has no company-wide policy of adjustable hours, all units are welcome to adopt them. The only two conditions: work must come first, and there cannot be any added cost to the company...
...every day to arrange care for their children. But the Shankers have one big advantage over most parents: the day-care center is at Steven's office. Union Bank provides $150,000 a year to subsidize the complex, which includes spacious play areas and five classrooms. While it would cost Shanker up to $700 a month to put his boys in other local day-care facilities of comparable quality, he pays the bank only $520 through convenient payroll deductions. Moreover, the arrangement allows him to avoid paying taxes on the portion of his salary that goes to child care...
Measuring the costs of such conflicts is difficult, but some researchers have tried. Analysts examining employee turnover typically estimate that replacing a worker can cost the equivalent of a year's salary or more in training expenses and lost productivity. Such outlays are rising rapidly, since women, who are more likely than men to have to leave their jobs, make up an increasingly large part of the work force and are holding more high- salaried managerial posts than ever before. Says Frank Skinner, president of the Southern Bell telephone company: "No employee who has to leave a sick child...
...artists intended, without the spotlights that did not exist in 18th century Japan. On any given day one may see perhaps a dozen screens and a dozen scrolls hanging in the main cell of the pavilion. They are to change once a month. Since the building cost some $12.7 million, this must be the lowest density of art per dollar in any museum in the world. Scholars can consult the main collection in storage...
From the British point of view, the American revolutionaries were ingrates. Had not the mother country endowed her colonists with a splendid heritage? Did she not, at considerable cost, literally save their scalps from the French and their Iroquois allies during the Seven Years' War? The litany of disappointment went on, driven by royal self-righteousness and a scarcely concealed craving to punish the upstarts...