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To: T.R. who wrote (84339)	12/9/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: PAL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

BTW..for their bonus/Christmas present last year each employee (except upper management) received around 200 shares of stock. Hmmm...I wonder what they'll get this year. $67 x 200 = $13,400 bonus, not bad for someone working on an assembly line. I think more of a stock option to purchase 200 shares at a given price instead of an outright bonus. This will motivate the employees since they own a part of the company. Home Depot uses this approach with great success. Paul

To: T.R. who wrote (84339)	12/9/1998 8:41:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

It is not at all unusual for outstanding job requisitions to be either restricted or frozen late in the year if the hiring is not critical. The travel expenses for job interviews are more expensive, many people are on vacation and otherwise not available to interview candidates, and the process for sure gets stalled after December 15th anyway. Also helps finance people clean up the books before the end of the year, but I don't know if that is important to Dell's financial calendar. When that happens the postings are not usually removed, they still want to get qualified candidates into the mill, and internal transfers are usually not affected. I have never seen any close correlation between short term hiring moves and what's going on in the business overall. Sometimes very good business can also result in a hiring reduction, since the key people are just too busy to interview or hire.