Word: siting
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...WHAT?! Seems everyone's ripping off the iMac idea. Take this parody ad for the fruity-colored "iBrator" at sleeplessknights.com The site also has a movie takeoff of Apple's famous 1984 commercial, but the heroine doesn't throw a hammer. Steve Jobs' response: "Well, we do encourage people to think different...
Westfall-Lake and "wellness supervisor" Jill Thieman have spearheaded a pilot project at a gas-gathering and -processing operation in the Four Corners. Some 400 shiftworkers, including field technicians, plant operators, maintenance workers and office staff, receive information about health and safety via an Intranet site, corporate fairs, family events and special classes. Employees can use company-owned vehicles to car-pool (thus minimizing driving fatigue), take time off while at work to exercise briefly on treadmills and stationary bicycles, and use light boxes that are designed to suppress melatonin, which induces sleep. So far, a third of those involved...
...toward retirement, many employers also see such programs as a way to eke a few more years of productivity from their graying work force. To cut back on sprains and strains on its bottling lines, Coors has introduced stretch breaks, hired ergonomics experts to redesign machines, built on-site gyms and even corporate health clinics, where employees and their families can be treated for any routine medical problem, work related...
...company time. The U.S. division of drugmaker Hoffmann-La Roche gives each employee $100 for joining a fitness club. Workers who buy one low-fat or vegetarian meal in the company cafeteria get another one free. Through incentives, the company has persuaded 93% of employees to undergo on-site checkups...
...provides a nearly perfect vehicle for reaching well-heeled customers with a taste for vinyl pushup bras or fur-lined handcuffs. Ann Summers got into Internet sales in the past two years and says its site www.annsummers.com averages a million hits a month. In August 1997 the company's monthly Internet sales stood at a mere $6,100; by last August the figure had climbed to $42,575. Beate Uhse expects online sales www.beate-uhse.com to hit $32.8 million this year...