Word: turnoveritis
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A toll is taken on the people who tend the machine. Welfare supervisors and caseworkers typically begin with the purest will to help and end up either leaving or fighting to remember why they enlisted in what ought to be a noble enterprise. Some workers in welfare offices issue checks...
Chicago's turnover rate is 55% a year. Most of those who stay handle 150 or more cases each; the federally recommended maximum is 60. One young caseworker, speaking for thousands like her in urban areas, says: "The paper work is just amazing. There are copies and copies of everything...
A familiar fever is returning to the stock market. Eager-eyed brokers who had long been afraid or ashamed to call their battered customers are getting back on the line again. Since the first of the year, turnover on the New York Stock Exchange has averaged more than 17 million...
Improvised Air. Young in the age of its dancers (the average is 22) as well as its history, the Joffrey (founded in 1956) has always had a nervous, half-improvised air about it, which may reflect the fact that it has no superstars and has been plagued by a distressingly...
About 40 U.S. companies have started a four-day week of nine-and ten-hour days; they report that productivity is up and absenteeism and turnover are down. In Germany, Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm has achieved much the same results by allowing its workers to choose, within limits, their own hours...