Word: trades
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Often, though, an administrator cannot be flexible enough. In those cases, Coleman suggests that a company make a rigid schedule more appealing by offering an attractive trade-off. For companies such as Corning and Goodyear, his consulting firm has created schedules that include 10 to 20 weeks of time off each year or that offer a seven- or eight-day break a month. Another way to make dismal shifts more appealing is to pay better. Coleman has found that many nightworkers will accept a difficult schedule if they can also work predictable overtime hours. "They could have a schedule," says...
...success didn't come easy. The stores languished until 1984, when Gold's efforts finally began to pay off, in large measure because of the introduction of more wholesome goods. "[Gold] took the shops away from their run-down, seedy image," notes Kim Rawlings, editor of Contours, a lingerie trade magazine. "They sell a lot more basic lingerie...
TRICK OR TREAT Last week the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on Web businesses that entice kids with games and entertainment in exchange for personal information they then sell to marketers. As part of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the FTC now requires companies to e-mail parents for permission before receiving names, addresses, phone numbers or other information from children under 13. The commission also stipulates that the material cannot be shared with other firms...
CHIP IN FOR BLUE CHIPS Can't afford $125 for a share of GE? Buy it on the installment plan. Starting in mid-November, even the smallest investors will be able to buy partial shares of some 300 heavily traded stocks on Sharebuilder.com With no minimum required to open an account or make a trade, this site is geared for beginners--i.e., mutual-fund investors curious about stock picking or kids just cracking open their piggy banks--and charges only $2 a purchase ($1 for kids) and $20 a sale...
...website. As always, there's a catch: in exchange for the hardware, consumers must share personal data, like income and interests. And ads will stream across the screen while users are online. With hardware so cheap these days, and advertising so pervasive, consumers will have to decide if the trade-off--mind share for monitor--is worth...