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To: TigerPaw who wrote (32731)10/2/2000 4:15:33 PM
From: gdichaz  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 54805
 
<Sales or profit per employee.>

How about cash flow or "free" cash flow or some such per employee?

Don't know beans about this, but it is pretty clear that the use of sales per employee is useless to compare Rambus or Qualcomm to a standard operating company, or even the differences in outsourcing would throw a curve at the numbers. And "profit" is a very flexible concept - for example what "profit" should be used for JDSU - pro forma or actual?

And on and on.

Seems like the quest for one key metric is a hard one. But perhaps some cash concept could be useful.

Best.

Cha2



To: TigerPaw who wrote (32731)10/2/2000 7:50:58 PM
From: chaz  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 54805
 
Profit per employee??

It's perhaps relatively easy to calculate, but I'm not sure it's all that valuable once you've got it. QCOM reorganizes twice in a year. Yuen operates GMST with an exceptionally small employee count. MSFT operates with tons of "independent contractors". Maybe it's not so easy to calculate.

Maybe we should listen to Merlin!

Chaz


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