Word: hp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets lifetime employment anymore, not even at companies like Hewlett-Packard, a visionary $31.5 billion high-tech firm that makes just about every good-guy list extant. Instead, HP employs a system of redeployment for "excessed" workers. They can hunt for other positions within the company for 90 days, fully paid and free of job responsibilities. Usually the company will make another job offer. But if an employee decides to leave, he or she still receives a generous severance package...
...HP pays at the upper end of the industry scale and provides full health insurance, a discount stock-purchase plan and a cash profit-sharing bonus. The company has offered flex-time for 20 years and has incorporated job sharing, compressed work weeks and telecommuting...
...success of HP and other such companies belies the notion that businesses that are socially responsible can't also be fiscally responsible. In fact, the opposite is true. A business can't do much good if it isn't any good at what it does...
...achieving objectives. In the '60s, he met with Stanford students protesting his company's defense contracts, and later mediated talks between them and their school. His personable style and civic activism inspired a new generation of pioneers (Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer in a garage, was an HP employee). His entire fortune of some $4.3 billion is going into a charitable trust...
...Hewlett-Packard (HP) workstations and Macintosh computers in the Science Center basement offer public access to the Web. The versions on the HP machines can be accessed by typing "xmosaic" at the "scws%" prompt...