Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(4)
These convoluted arrangements to distance employees from their employer are one of the ways working people have had money drained away from them in the last 20 years.
If the only way to keep a company competitive is to distance employees from the managerial prerogatives of ownership, so be it.
Having long viewed bureaucracy as a competitive liability, Zhang Ruimin, Haier's renegade CEO, has for a decade led an effort to build a company where everyone is directly accountable to customers (a policy he describes as "zero distance"), employees are energetic entrepreneurs, and an open ecosystem of users, inventors, and partners replaces formal hierarchy.
Here and at four other factories within a short driving distance, employees test washing machines, dryers, ovens and other household appliances at every step of production.
Similar(56)
Typically, these time clock apps do things like take screenshots to verify that the freelancer or distance employee is actually doing work for your company.
On a low rooftop in the distance, hotel employees spread out blankets and prepared to sleep beneath the stars.
His goal was to tear down the walls between the organization, shortening the time the company took to respond to users' needs, with the ultimate goal of "zero distance" between employees and users.
That distance between employees – more than anything else – remains the largest advantage that startups have over large corporations.
For example, there are routing algorithms that minimize the collective distance the employees need to travel off their commutes home to make the deliveries.
For example, there are routing algorithms that minimize the collective distance the employees need to travel off their commutes home to make the deliveries.
But a thousand little things finally caught up with him: his emotional distance from employees, his relentless pressure to drive by the financial numbers and keep up profit margins, his stony conviction that problems were merely temporary.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com