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Companies that treat employees with respect, invest in training programs and use innovative workplace practices tend to be more profitable, according to a Labor Department study released today. The two-year look at workplace strategies of American companies was conducted by the management consulting arm of Ernst & Young for the government. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who has advocated such strategies for years, said the path-breaking" study "shows the surest way to profits and productivity is to treat employees as assets to be developed rather than costs to be cut." An example from the study: Motorola Inc. estimates that...
...Ernst & Young, the nation's second biggest accounting firm, is in the process of eliminating 50% of its total U.S. office space by converting most E&Y accountants and consultants into part-time telecommuters who must literally make reservations to use the remaining offices. Under a system known as ``hoteling,'' E&Y employees in need of space must book at least one day in advance. Each office is equipped with the necessary hardware -- as well as room for a few personal belongings, like portable pictures of the family. A similar switch to telecommuting and hoteling by the Chicago staff...
...Ernst Mayr, Agassiz professor of zoology, emeritus, is affectionately known as Darwin's modern day bulldog. And at 90 years of age, this bulldog has no intentions of slowing down...
...biology, writes Gould, the "cardinal event" was the birth of Ernst Mayr...
...personal opinion is that Ernst Mayr is the greatest of the living evolutionary biologists," says John T. Edsall '23, professor of biochemistry, emeritus. "He influenced my outlook [on biology] and enlarged...