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To: Jim S who wrote (36370)	7/2/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

My God man,(if true) this is dark ages stuff - piece work out of the home! <<The San Jose Mercury News, which published two reports on the alleged abuses, reported that Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Cisco Systems were among the firms that contracted with companies that paid workers for labor done in their homes. According to those reports, at least a dozen contracting firms, from small businesses to giant corporations, had used piecework arrangements to try to hold down production costs. The articles also reported that the contracting work was done in the last year and possibly violated safety, tax, and labor laws.>> Can't work a gold mine from home. Less easy to cheat people out of overtime if the punch in & out.