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What is your definition of a good job?

by Hayley Hershman

Jun 17, 2016

We have some answers from Nashville.

How do you define a good job? "Someplace that allows you room for growth," was one answer.

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The Price of Profits

IBM: when corporations took care of their employees

by Dan Bobkoff

Jun 13, 2016

IBM had a policy of full employment and went without layoffs for seven decades.

Louis V. Gerstner became CEO of IBM in 1993. Later that year, the company would lay off thousands of workers.

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