Word: hires
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After all, the recent burgeoning of the consulting sector and simultaneous cross-the-board downsizing of middle management is based upon the relative cheapness of consultant labor. Why pay a long-time company employee with a family to feed and corporate benefits to collect, when you can hire the same job out to Harvard kids at Boston Consulting Group, who will do it for less...
Rather than introduce a new office, Buonomo has proposed that the city hire translators in all of its existing departments that deal with immigrants...
Public disclosure becomes even more crucial if Harvard decides to hire a private accounting firm to do the monitoring, instead of a non-profit organization such as Amnesty International. Recently, an independent study found that the accounting firm Ernst & Young's audit of a Nike factory in Vietnam was riddled with errors and oversights. Accounting firms are less likely to be familiar with local conditions and to earn the trust of workers than nonprofits, who typically consult with local community organizations. Furthermore, most such firms are or have been under contract to garment companies--an unacceptable conflict of interest...
...Harvard, I know they hire adjunct people to teach an occasional course. And that's okay. That's not great...There...
...news last week was that Details editor Michael Caruso was fired even though Maxim-ization had helped the magazine to recoup several years' worth of circulation losses. The new hire is none other than Maxim's editor, Mark Golin, who came to the magazine just a year ago from Cosmo. (Conspiracy?) Details, he says, won't "become Maxim," though it will "certainly have women and beer in it." He is tired of the criticism that Maxim has dumbed the category down. "Is civilization really coming to an end? Come on, you can get pictures of women and donkeys...