Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Katherine Lechler, 35, a graphics designer for CMP Media's InformationWeek, a trade publication in Manhasset, N.Y., knowing that she can have lunch every day with her two children, Christopher, 3, and Beatrice, 13 months, makes all the difference to her job. The company's on-site, full-service day-care center allows Lechler to see her kids anytime during the workday if they aren't feeling well--or if they just need a hug from Mom. She pays the company about $165 a week for Christopher's care and $150 a week for Beatrice's, which, Lechler says, costs...
...worthwhile. So in a world where specialized skills and hands-on experience are still at a premium, corporations are adapting at the fringes. Rather than a fat expense account and a company car, firms are offering things like flexible work plans (job sharing and part-time employment) or on-site day-care programs, parenting classes, referrals to elder care for aging parents, and tuition money for college-bound kids. The alternative, they know, is that they may lose "the best and most creative employees in their fields," says Peter Elinsky, partner in charge of compensation and benefits at KPMG Peat...
...major worries of working parents is how best to take care of their kids. To meet that need, NationsBank of Charlotte, N.C., provides five different on-site or near-site child-care centers that are open to the children of its 100,000 employees. There is even a public school accommodating 150 students for grades K-3 that is just for children of NationsBank's employees in Jacksonville, Fla., says Nancy Poe, a vice president in the bank's personnel department. The school is a joint project of the company and the Duval County school system. "The school...
...estimates the value of the Frito-Lay aid package at more than $10 million. And that is in addition to $104.7 million in industrial-development revenue bonds issued by the city of Jonesboro to build and equip the potato-chip plant. The other incentives include the 140-acre plant site, a rail spur, road improvements, a construction grant, tax credits for new employees and a 20% discount on sewer bills for the next 15 years. That sewage-treatment plant, by the way, cost $7 million and is large enough to accommodate a second city the size of Jonesboro...
...from 3 p.m. to midnight and another red-eye from midnight to 7 a.m. "It's doesn't matter if it's dark outside," Curly points out, "it's dark down there anyway". Compensation is just for this sunless travail. According to some workers at the South Station tunnel site, "We get paid $90,000 a year and that's probably a hell of a lot more than you'll get paid out of Harvard." The engineer working at the hole next door to the bus station talks about his contract, which began 16 months ago. "I work on structure...