Word: transfering
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More and more executives and their families are refusing to be uprooted, even if the transfer means higher rank and salary. Merrill Lynch Relocation Management, Inc., which specializes in moving executives, estimates that 200,000 to 300,000 of them will be asked by their employers this year to move to new locations and one-third to one-half will object; only a decade ago, the refusal rate was no more than 10%. Says James E. Wall, vice president of Celanese Corp.: "The balance has definitely shifted away from saluting the company and marching off to Timbuctu toward a greater...
Some companies still consider a refusal to transfer to be an act of disloyalty that can ruin a promising career. But most firms are becoming more understanding, and some are willing to make special arrangements. After Jo Anne Kaiser, 28, a former Bonwit Teller buyer, refused to leave her new home in Orlando, Fla., for a headquarters job in Miami, Burdine's, a big department-store chain, agreed to a setup by which she spends only two days a week in Miami and goes to New York on buying trips every six weeks. Says Celanese's Wall...
...Formerly, the transfer process used to be a significant hassle," Spence says. If a student wished to transfer, he put his name down on a list at the office of Eleanor C. Marshall, former assistant to the dean of the College for housing, and hoped for the best...
...Currier was my tenth choice. I lived there for a semester and then left. But it was a bitch to move. The whole transfer process was run by one woman. The only way to move someplace good was to pull strings by talking to someone inside the House, like a tutor, and having him put in a good word for you", Joan D. Channick '78 said...
Spence says the new system avoids these hassles by giving more responsibility to the Houses (applications are made to the House one wishes to move to rather than to a central office) and by allowing students to transfer only at certain designated times during the year so that there is less confusion about who is moving where and when...