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...Liberty ship Caleb Strong steamed from Newport News, Va., to Algeria in the spring of 1944, the G.I.s aboard did what soldiers going to war always do: they wrote a lot of letters home. Some of them never got there: to be exact, 235 letters to 117 addresses in 34 states from 93 servicemen. For reasons that may never be known, this batch of V-mail wound up in an attic in Raleigh, N.C., in the house of an aunt of a serviceman. Mixed in with some old socks in an Army duffel bag, they were discovered in June...
While officials declined to give the exact costfor the stadium concert, they said that it wouldbe in the hundred thousands. Projected estimatesfor the main stage alone are about...
...exact technique depends on the job to be supervised, but monitoring requires only the installation of specially written software into the central computer that handles the work of many individual terminal users. Thus equipped, the master computer then will not only process information from each employee's terminal but also measure, record and tabulate dozens of details about how efficiently the worker is putting information into the machine...
Instead of supervising the old way, by peering over an employee's shoulder from time to time and trying to guess from observation how well the subordinate performs, a manager can now simply look into a worker's computer dossier and immediately see, for instance, an exact record of how many letters a week a secretary has been handling on her word processor. The manager can compare one worker objectively with all the others, then reward the speedy ones and warn the laggards. Not all employees find the surveillance oppressive. In fact many, particularly the hardest workers, prefer...
Since monitoring provides an exact measure of a worker's productivity, several companies have combined the technology with pay-for-performance programs. At Automatic Data Processing, a New Jersey computer-services giant, data-entry typists who work efficiently can boost their salaries by as much as 40%. An employee typing 18,000 keystrokes an hour -- or five per second -- earns...