We can admit that pregnant workers may be less profitable employees than nonpregnant workers in the short term, yet choose to value aspects of life beyond economic productivity.
In the next decade, it won't be enough for a company to merely be profitable — customers, employees and investors will all demand that a company produce positive impact, as well.
Costco, as President Obama likes to remind us, pays a starting salary of $11.50 an hour, because long-term "it's a lot more profitable" to "minimize employee turnover and maximize productivity and commitment," according to a senior Costco executive.
Unfortunately, rather than having substantive discussions about how effective unions actually make companies more profitable while rewarding employees with a greater share of record profits, we get mired in nugatory rhetoric such as the wages of union leaders.
2. The business is small (fewer than 25 employees), profitable and relatively debt-free.
The company is profitable with 70 employees, and has revenue of more than $1 million per month.
Until now, Hamilton said HasOffers has been bootstrapped and profitable, with 79 employees, so it didn't necessarily need the money.
Mind Candy's revenues was a portion of that, but it is profitable with 100 employees and Smith says revenues "tripled" last year.
(2012 was an exceptionally profitable year, and every employee received the equivalent of an extra eleven weeks of salary).
"Businesses like those provisions that reduce the hurdle rate that you have to surmount in order to make an investment — like an employee — a profitable investment," said Robert Willens, president of a tax and accounting advisory firm in New York.
