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Identifier: belltelephonemag26amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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assaying that he had the best group ofpeople possible for the job to be done.That is the spirit that makes an or-ganization function effectively. Justcontemplate this for a moment. In one division with 50 supervisory peo-ple, over a period of five weeks onlyone of the supervisors was absent: anabsence of seven hours, equivalent tothe loss of one employee day in fiveyears. Active employment for temporaryhelp was under way by October i.Some 1,500 persons were interviewedfor a variety of jobs, such as clerk,machine operator, typist and stenog-rapher. Two out of every five ap-plicants were hired. Of the 600 newemployees, one-third were college-trained, and two-thirds were women.Some, like Mrs. Thompson and AnnHobart, were housewives and stu-dents; some were between jobs,others just preferred temporary workto permanent jobs. While about athird of the men and women hadpreviously worked for the Bell Sys-tem, all of them had to learn the de-tails connected with the convertibledebenture issue.
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This is a sec/ion 0/ the communications division where letters of iiiqnirv were answeredand irregularities were straightened out by letter or telephone 1947-4^ The Biggest Offer Ever Then there was thematter of space andtools. Fiv^e empty floorsat 299 Broadway wereleased, and the greattrek began. Into the temporaryquarters were moved 46van loads of furnitureand equipment. Therewere 800 chairs, 450 ta-bles, 225 filing cabinets,175 desks. There werea hundred typewritersand nearly as many add-ing, calculating, address-ing, and other machines.In addition, there wereabout 50 clothes racksand three-score miscellaneous itemssuch as postage meters, safes, sort-ing racks, cash registers—not to men-tion complete furnishings for recrea-tion rooms. And, of course, therewere hundreds of warrant boxes,metal security boxes, desk trays, andthe many, many stationery items thatgo with paper work. The paperwork actually involved tons of paper :yes, 175 tons, of which 25 percentwent into the prospectus

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