My employer has required that I teach classes at a location away from my office. I have a disabled, salaried employee who has semi-regular responsibilities in the field. He is unable to drive and does not own a vehicle. I intend to pay the cost of hiring a driver to allow his field work. Most firms use them but are unhappy with the process.
Some observers say the concept needs to be updated.
When UCLA senior Mark Leverette's job search began last October, he had dreams of using his business economics degree to land a job complete with a signing bonus and a padded benefits package. Establishing oneself as an authority in an industry overflowing with experts is no easy task, but that's Kari Comstock Feder's quest. The most recent federal statistics available show that truck drivers continue to lead other professions by a wide margin in the number of injuries and illnesses that result in lost workdays. The strategy you employ to rescue your company from the brink might just shove it over the cliff. So said researchers at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business who studied the downsizing efforts of eight large U.S. corporations in the 1990s.