In 2003, an F.B.I. special agent named Coleen Rowley wrote a letter to the director of the Bureau, Robert Mueller, pointing out that "after 9/11, Headquarters encouraged more and more detentions for what seem to be essentially P.R. purposes.
The graffiti-covered slab will stand in front of the headquarters to encourage workers to overcome obstacles, Opel said, and as a symbol of the new era that the company hopes lies ahead.
In response to criticism that it was doing too little to curtail excessive overtime, the firm started turning off the lights at 10pm at its Tokyo headquarters to encourage employees to go home.
Buzzfeed in December was granted a $4 million tax credit for its new 194,000 square foot headquarters to encourage it to stay amid concerns it may go elsewhere.
Signs out front proclaimed it a "Disaster Relief Headquarters" and encouraged volunteers to ask how they could help.
To Jon "I know China" Huntsman, Newt "three wives" Gingrich, Gary "drugs!" Johnson, Buddy "who?" Roemer, and Rick "don"t Google me" Santorum, I apologize for not elaborating on your candidacies in this letter but I was concerned that any mail addressed to your campaign headquarters would only encourage your doomed, electoral vanity ventures.
Executives at Heineken's headquarters intend to strongly "encourage local markets to use" the Lowe Lintas New York ads, Mr. Thompson said, or they can continue running campaigns from local agencies -- but only "if the creative is better".
OUR Walmart has also flown dozens of workers to Wal-Mart's headquarters and is encouraging religious leaders to hold a "Black Friday Prayer Vigil" to object to the company's treatment of workers.
But they may also come in less traditional ways, such as from installing solar panels (which we just did at our headquarters in Trenton), encouraging employees to car-pool and installing LED light bulbs.
AT&T, for example, will light its headquarters in purple on October 20 and encourage employees to wear purple, while Yahoo plans to take photos of employees dressed in purple in the company's offices around the country.
