Hard to justify in terms of bottom line but true

Subject: Hard to justify in terms of bottom line but true
From: Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:31:14 -0700 (PDT)

I've seen this in every well-managed place where I've worked. I've been
fortunate (or not) to work at a range of companies, with some being
zeroes on the management scale and others quite impressive.

This truism goes unrecognized because it's hard to prove bottom line,
although quality of product is noticably better when people are not
burnt-out zombies. Here's another:

Good documentation (readability, completeness, organization) = happy
users = return customers = productive + profitable company

--- Damien Braniff <Damien -dot- Braniff -at- asg -dot- com> wrote:

> I guess what I'm saying is that a good company (environment, pay,
> hours
> - the whole package) = happy staff = productive + profitable company.


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