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Over the years, SAS has augmented fun perks with others that help employees save time. There's an on-site health clinic with four doctors and 20 nurses. "Instead of taking three hours out of work to go to the doctor, it takes 30 minutes," Goodnight says. The company figures the on-site health care saves it $2,000 per employee annually, because workers get to go to the doctor sooner when sick. The same rationale applies to the on-site barbershop, child-care center, gym and the staffer who arranges for care for elderly relatives. "Every minute...
...SAS is contrarian in another way. When most software companies were downsizing, SAS was hiring programmers and salespeople. Its employee rolls expanded 6% in 2001 and 8.5% last year. "A lot of good people were on the street looking for jobs, so we decided it was a good time to hire," Goodnight says. Growth...
...business-software firm PeopleSoft for a lowball price of $16 a share--about 50˘ less than the market value of the stock. Neither analysts nor competitors seemed sure whether to take him seriously. "Larry's just having some fun with these people," says Jim Goodnight, CEO of software firm SAS, based in Cary, N.C. "He's trying to mess up sales they're trying to close before the end of this quarter...
...value far exceeds the overhead costs," says Jeff Chambers, human-resources chief at SAS, the world's largest privately held software company. SAS calculates that the free primary-health-care facility at its Cary, N.C., headquarters enables workers to return to their desks in 30 minutes instead of the two hours they would need if they went off-site to a doctor. The company, which has two on-site child-care centers, a 77,000-sq.-ft. gym, a farmers' market and a putting green, last month announced a new benefit: retiree health care. "We're going counterculture," says Chambers...
...Heilman ’03, former president of Harvard Students for Israel and a member of the Society of Arab Students (SAS), said he shouldn’t be excluded from SAS even though many SAS members strongly disagree with his views...