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To: Boplicity who wrote (59767)	8/20/1998 10:45:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

Looks like I am going to have to work. Anybody up to it???? Thursday's Top Stories Dell struggles to find workers as sales expand Compiled by CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 9:09 AM ET Aug 20, 1998 (NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Dell Computer Corp.'s rocketing sales growth is hiding a huge headache, the Wall Street Journal reported. While Dell continues to blow away the competition and Wall Street with enormous increases in personal-computer sales, it is continually scrambling to bring in and train enough people to keep up with its orders. The company's employment has grown 56% in the past year, to 20,800, and during the past three months Dell added 225 people a week -- about the same number it added every six weeks in 1996. To manage the expansion, Dell aggressively has recruited experienced outsiders and tried to standardize training of new employees. It also has created a culture where managers are rewarded for seeing their divisions split into smaller units and their responsibilities cut back..