09-11-2016, 12:11 PM
It is worth noting that Starbucks, a coffee-house chain, now offers free tuition to its employees without a bachelor's degree to an on-line university for an accredited degree. A firm like Starbucks must believe that such is good for
(1) attracting desirable employees,
(2) retaining desirable employees, and
(3) creating better employees.
People better able to converse with clients might get customers to buy several coffee-based drinks instead of one. Those drinks are profitable. Turnover has always been a problem for low-wage employers of any kind, especially when the low-wage employer has obvious competition.
Getting the chance to keep wait and bar help for four years instead of four months might be worth it. To be sure, the degree isn't exactly from a renowned university, but what the heck?
...We may see such a change. So work for (name fast-food company, clothing store, etc.) and get a chance at a college degree. Graduate and you will be a more desirable employee there, but look elsewhere afterward if you get a degree in accounting? Then the company got a sandwich-maker or checker-cashier to stay much longer than is normal in the business.
At least the low-wage business got to solve part of its 'turnover' problem, and I don't mean that its peach turnovers failed.
(1) attracting desirable employees,
(2) retaining desirable employees, and
(3) creating better employees.
People better able to converse with clients might get customers to buy several coffee-based drinks instead of one. Those drinks are profitable. Turnover has always been a problem for low-wage employers of any kind, especially when the low-wage employer has obvious competition.
Getting the chance to keep wait and bar help for four years instead of four months might be worth it. To be sure, the degree isn't exactly from a renowned university, but what the heck?
...We may see such a change. So work for (name fast-food company, clothing store, etc.) and get a chance at a college degree. Graduate and you will be a more desirable employee there, but look elsewhere afterward if you get a degree in accounting? Then the company got a sandwich-maker or checker-cashier to stay much longer than is normal in the business.
At least the low-wage business got to solve part of its 'turnover' problem, and I don't mean that its peach turnovers failed.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.