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Great organizations hire their own janitors into full-time roles. The short-term-profit seeking that's become pervasive in our economy heavily discourages any
by subway 9y ago
Great organizations hire their own janitors into full-time roles.
The short-term-profit seeking that's become pervasive in our economy heavily discourages any hiring you can out-source (and similarly discourages any R&D that won't pay out this quarter).
Organizations that outsource all but their "core competencies" to temp agencies will remain fully incompetent outside their core, and due to extra layer of employment abstraction, they have little chance of seeing a cross-pollination between folks in the undervalued roles they outsource, and overvalued roles they hire for.
edit: I can't help but be reminded of this interesting article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-rising-inequality-consider-the-janitors-at-two-top-companies-then-and-now.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoWhat great organizations are left that hire their own janitors as full FTEs?
- Negitivefrags 9y agoWe just changed from a cleaning agency to two full time cleaners and it was a great move. Rather than having an agency that has a specific list of things they will clean (and nothing outside of that unless you negotiate with the agency), the cleaners just have the goal of making the office a nice place for our staff. That means they can feel free to use their initiative to make the office not just clean but also tidy. It’s made a big difference in just a few weeks.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoSo you give them health insurance? That’s nice!
- pastage 9y agoYou can never force your employers or subcontractors take pride in their work. From experience it's mostly an issue of how the hiring organization views itself, or the guy/gal in charge of it.