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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4006)6/6/2001 3:24:40 PM
From: John Pitera  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 33421
 
productivity has declined because corporations are loath to fire trained workers, despite the fact that manufacturing orders are showing little or no growth (

I found it interesting that when SUNW was letting go workers recently, it was reported that in the past they
had not done this as since the workers would need to be hired back in the future, it was more efficient to
just keep them, through the lean period.