Comments on: Layoffs Coming At Dow Jones’ Enterprise Group

By: Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:40:07 +0000

In this recession, employee productivity has risen. We've discovered that technology is enabling fewer people to do any given unit of work. E-mail is the employer's institutional memory. As the workforce changes, the employer needs that memory so that present employees and contractors can look back and see what their predecessors were doing in previous years.

By: Steve Olivier

Steve Olivier — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:41:30 +0000

What a laugh, "a lot more work for those who remain." Those that remain have been working at a practically in-humane pace for the last year or so.

I was laid off yesterday from The Journal as an art director in marketing. No marketing department anywhere could produce the volume, variety, the results and the quickest turnaround time in the business to support the Journal sales staff that we did. I even designed unique ad units that no other publication offers on my own time to help "my company" in these difficult times and they are selling. Corporations look at paper, not people.

Anyone out there that needs someone whose work ethic, talent and ambition contributed to the Journal actually gaining market share and grow circulation in these difficult times, feel free to contact me, my services are available,
Steve Olivier
molivier@optonline.net

By: Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:41:01 +0000

As employees are handed pink slips, an employer like a bank or a brokerage may be prudent to retain their e-mail records. The records are a valuable asset to the employer. –Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/10/retain-e-mail-of-former-employees.html