This can't be wide spread. Pundits say the productivity figures are low recently.
Gene On Jun 19, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Ian Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/business/international/toyota-defends-diversity-hiring-after-american-is-arrested.html > > TOKYO — Toyota Motor was forthright, even proud, about why it promoted a > group of foreign and female managers this spring: The automaker wanted more > diversity in an executive suite dominated by Japanese men. > Now the company finds itself defending its efforts to change after one of the > executives it promoted, an American woman, was arrested on charges of > illegally bringing a restricted painkiller into Japan. > Toyota spoke up in support of the executive, Julie Hamp, on Friday, a day > after she was taken into custody by the Japanese police. The company’s > president, Akio Toyoda, called her a “trusted and essential” aide and said he > was confident she had not intentionally broken the law. > But fairly or unfairly, the case was being taken as a test of whether Toyota > had miscalculated in its decision to reshape its management to more closely > reflect the global nature of its business. > Mr. Toyoda spent most of a hastily arranged news conference fending off > questions from Japanese reporters about whether he would reconsider the > diversity drive in light of what one called the “special risks” of promoting > foreigners. He responded repeatedly that he would not. > “There is no change to our policy of hiring qualified people with the right > on-the-ground experience, regardless of their gender or nationality,” he > said. He apologized that the case had caused “a stir” and said Ms. Hamp had > “worked harder than anyone to adapt to Japan.” > Drug-related transgressions carry a particularly strong social stigma in > Japan, and prominent people caught breaking drug laws face media hounding > and, often, ruined careers. > > [snip] > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:38:37 -0700 > Subject: [Pen-l] the pharmacopeia of wage labor for the other 1% > > [and to think Steve Jobs and his cohorts just dropped lsd to 'get er done'] > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/us/workers-seeking-productivity-in-a-pill-are-abusing-adhd-drugs.html > > > > > Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. Drugs > > By ALAN SCHWARZAPRIL 18, 2015 > Photo > > Elizabeth, a Long Island native identified by her middle name, with her > Adderall.CreditElizabeth D. Herman for The New York Times > Continue reading the main storyShare This Page > • Email > • Share > • Tweet > • Save > • More > Continue reading the main story > Continue reading the main story > Fading fast at 11 p.m., Elizabeth texted her dealer and waited just 30 > minutes for him to reach her third-floor New York apartment. She handed him a > wad of twenties and fifties, received a tattered envelope of pills, and > returned to her computer. > Her PowerPoint needed another four hours. Investors in her health-technology > start-up wanted re-crunched numbers, a presentation begged for bullet points > and emails from global developers would keep arriving well past midnight. > She gulped down one pill — pale orange, like baby aspirin — and then, > reconsidering, took one of the pinks, too. > “O.K., now I can work,” Elizabeth exhaled. Several minutes later, she felt > her brain snap to attention. She pushed her glasses up her nose and churned > until 7 a.m. Only then did she sleep for 90 minutes, before arriving at her > office at 9. > The pills were versions of the drug Adderall, an amphetamine-based stimulant > prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder that many college > students have long used illicitly while studying. Now, experts say, stimulant > abuse is graduating into the work force. > > [snip] > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list > [email protected]https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
