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Noble as these efforts are, the chief executives pushing open the doors to the executive suite are acting more out of pragmatism than probity. "It doesn't make sense to cut yourself off from half of the talented people in this world," observes George Harvey, chief executive of Pitney Bowes, the giant Connecticut-based office-equipment company. "If we're known as a good place to work, more good people will want to work here. That will make us more competitive, which means more sales and higher stock prices...
...authors did not rank their 100 best companies, but they did choose a Top Ten. In alphabetical order, they are Bell Laboratories, Trammell Crow, Delta Air Lines, Goldman Sachs, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Northwestern Mutual Life, Pitney Bowes and Time...
...often as not, a firm's in-house culture is reflected in the face that the company presents to the world at large. The "work hard / play hard" cultures of companies like McDonald's, IBM, Xerox, Pitney Bowes and R.H. Macy carry well beyond the office, showing up in a dedication to sales and customer service. A spirit of entrepreneurial risk-taking helps "bet-your-company" firms like Exxon and Boeing to make huge investments in high-risk ventures that take years to develop...
...contract was awarded in 1979 to Siegel & Gale, a New York City consultant organization that has rewritten and redesigned hundreds of legal forms and loan applications for such companies as Citibank, 3M and Pitney Bowes. Working with firms specializing in accounting, behavioral research and readability, Siegel & Gale came up with forms designed for the convenience of the taxpayer rather than the tax collector. The typeface is Franklin Gothic for the main heads, the same headline type used in this magazine. The text type is Century Schoolbook, a highly legible face that was developed more than 60 years ago. The designers...
...that much larger. Less than 15% of Du Pont's employees, both blue-collar and whitecollar, elect to keep working until they reach 65. Says Employee Benefits Manager Leonard J. Bardsley: "This trend continued through 1978 even when they knew of the change in the law." Pitney-Bowes, Inc., abolished mandatory retirement last April 1. Since then, 105 of its workers have retired on or before their 65th birthday, and only ten have chosen to keep working more than a few months past that age. Singer Co., which long has had a mandatory retirement age of 68, finds...