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My takeaway was that not only was a janitor directly employed by the company (as cleaning services are basically 100% outsourced in my experience now) but was p
by jackvalentine 7y ago
My takeaway was that not only was a janitor directly employed by the company (as cleaning services are basically 100% outsourced in my experience now) but was paid well and felt part of the company such that he was motivated to stay interested and contribute.
- triangleman 7y agoYes that is quite the anachronism these days.
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- ddingus 7y agoToo bad. Perhaps there is an opportunity cost argument for a better alternative.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI imagine it's super hard to quantify the profit of "ideas from janitor", but super easy to quantify the savings of "no longer paying for a janitor". Plus, if every company has a gentleman's agreement to ignore the help then there's no lost opportunity that the competition can jump on.
- ddingus 7y agoSure there is, they all just agree to ignore it.
- runamok 7y agoRight. The current philosophy is to outsource anything that isn't your core competency. There used to be a path from lowly janitor/stocker/etc. to the executive suite but that route has largely closed. Your comment reminded me of this article I read a while back: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/21/gail-evans-went-from-janitor-to-executive-at-microsoft-and-mercer.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/21/gail-evans-went-from-janitor...