Re: Outsourcing of VMS ?

Dave Froble wrote:
In some cases I think it goes beyond stupidity. The stupidity is in
letting such people into decision making positions. If you need
beancounters, and such are needed, keep them counting beans, not making
decisions. There is the problem.

When you look at the issue of office supplies, this has been an issue
at many companies for quite some time. And such decisiuons, which look
really stupid, to restrict access to office supplies are usually made
after substantial abuses had been made by employees who stole office
supplies to bring home.

If you are like HP with over 100,000 employees, and employees routinely
steal from the office supply cabinet, that is a hell of a lot of stolen
pens, post-it pads, paper etc etc.

Why do you think that photocopies manufacturters added functions in
photocopiers to require a password to access a photocopier (linked to a
departmental account so the dept could be charges for the photocopies
they make). That is because so many people abused photocopiers for their
own personal uses. (copying books, whole manuals etc).

Once people started to get printers and computers at home, many office
supplies started to become really attractive to employees...

Bean counters are told there is a problem. They implement "a" solution.
(without much thinking about how it impacts employee productivity and
morale). And then they declare "case closed".

Consider office buildings that turn off ventilation at 17:01 in order to
save money. If the building's fresh air intake was designed with 24 hour
ventialtion in mind, and all of a sudden, you run ventialtion only 12
hours a day, then the building never has the time to make a full air
change and stale air with all the office pollutants (carpets, dust,
gases from copiers etc) are never fully flushed out and employees then
have a higher level of absenteeism. The building onwers do not see those
costs, it is the tennants that do. And it is very hard to pin it down on
building air quality.
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