One of the obvious benefits to promoting floor workers which is not covered in the article is that the former floor workers know the work realities. One of the

One of the obvious benefits to promoting floor workers which is not covered in the article is that the former floor workers know the work realities. One of the biggest sins of hiring MBA's for management is that they don't know the floor realities and therefore they get an analytical view of the business which is simplified in the wrong ways. One solution might be to hire MBA's as floor workers for a minimum of a year before promoting them to management. However, with student loans being what they are, that is not feasible today.