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Show Up and Down the Street Has Replaced Kennecott BYXJ As No. 1 Private Employer By Robert H.Woody Tribune Business Editor No question about it Kennecott was the indisputable champion. Utahs largest private employer. In 1981, its Utah Cop per Division had 'altakf 7,300 employees. Nobody had beat em for years. As of July 1, the Sribnnc copper giant is only a shadow of itself with the layoff of nearly 1,800. It now employs 1984. Business only 2,600. The new cham- - iff, pion? Hold your Sunday Morning, Mr. Woody hat July folks! 15, 1984 Brigham Young University at Pro vo. e It reckons its employment at 6,500! full-tim- more or less, up about 500 from last year. That number may go up or down depending upon the outcome of a reorganization program underway in its New Products activities. Following last years cutbacks by Kennecott, Mountain Bell would have probably been the top employer of 5,000, Section F equivalent e equivalent is a measure employment assuming all of Brigham Youngs 11,800 employees e were on basis. e work 3,400 Actually, only according to Don Lyman, director of BYU employment services. The re- Page 1 Full-tim- of satch Division of Morton Thiokol Inc. in Box Elder County. The Wasatch Division is principally engaged in the manufacture of booster motors for the space shuttle and the casting of the first stage motor for the Trident missile. Thiokol employs 5,984, down from a peak of 6,200 in the early 1960s when it was deep in development of the Air Forces Minuteman ICBM, but well above the 1,500 it had sunk to when it had completed the Minuteman program. Next on the list? Sperry UNTVAC and its Defense Systems Division which employs full-tim- full-tim- mainder are students, generally basis. working on a part-tim- e There are measures of economic impact other than employment of course. Goods and services bought locally. Dollar volume of products sold out of state, etc., etc. Impact on community facilities. But if job numbers alone are considered, the second place goes to Wa- - However, it now counts 4,570 employees for fourth place standing. In a years time, it has been through its own special agony of breakup under court order and restructuring into new and independent entities. About 1,042 jobs were cut by attrition, mechanization, and further consolidation, the company says. Another 1,207 jobs were spun off into the new entities born of the divestiture. Hercules, Inc., long an employer in Utah when it came to Bacchus to produce dynamite, now employs 4,400 in the production of solid propellant motors for strategic missiles. That is down from over 6,000 it employed 20 years ago in the height of ths Minuteman program but considerably up from lower levels the late 1960s and early 1970s. With programs and prospects in the pipeline, the number at Hercules could top 5,000 by early next year, the company said. Utah Power & Light Co. counts 4,000 of its 4,355 employes as Utah workers. The others are stationed in Idaho and Wyoming. ded ZCMI, the Salt Lake partment store chain, employs about 3,500 in seven stores in Utah and at its service center in Salt Lake City, the company said. First Security Corp., Salt Lake d bankholding company, is next on the Dst with 3,221 employees. That number includes those working in corporate offices, in its principal subsidiary First Security Bank of Utah, N.A., First Security State Bank, its mortgage and leasing activities and at its computer center. U.S. Steel now has 2,700 in the state at its Geneva Works steelmaking plant and about 100 at other locations compared to a total 4,900 in 1981 and about 6,000 several years ago when it was not only producing steel but also mining iron ore and coal as complementary activities. Kennecott, once King of the Hill, always a thousand employees or so ahead of Geneva Works, now ranks tenth with 2,600. And if Kennecott shrinks any more, 10th place could well go to Union Pacific System which employs about 2,543 in Utah. That number has been r. generally unchanged City-base- City-base- Wasatch Division, building parts for space shuttle, Trident missiles, is states second leading employer. Morton-Thioko- ls Time Coming to Settle on By Norman Black Associated Press Writer - " WASHINGTON Within the next few months, hundreds of thousands of American consumers who have never thought twice about what company handles their phone calls will have to give the matter some thought They will be told that their local telephone office is being cut over to provide something called equal access. They will receive an informational mailing from their local Bell company, telling them it is time to pick the company they like best. Then they will face a barrage of radio, TV and newspaper ads, more mailings and even solicitations from a host of phone companies. The process will be repeated from exchange to exchange and city to city or through 1986, when two-thirmore of the roughly 80 million telephone customers served by local Bell companies will be affected. The process is almost guaranteed to produce confusion, and quite possibly mutterings that the government never should have broken up the long-distan- long-distan- door-to-do- long-distan- year-to-yea- Service Long-Distan- ce American Telephone & Telegraph Co. But consumers will be urged to pay attention, because the opportunity they are being offered is considered the most important benefit of the Bell Systems demise. In simplest terms, equal access means ease of dialing the ability to calls via a place your company like MCI Communications or GTE-Sprias easily as you do now through AT&T. If you think you can save money with one of the competitors and they all claim you can you will not need a phone; you will not need to dial up to 12 extra digits; you will not encounter a great difference in voice quality; and, at least with the largest of the companies, you will not have to pay a monthly service fee. For the first time in anybodys life, when it comes to telephone service, a person or business has the opportunity to take exactly the same service and pay different prices for it, says MCI spokesman Gary Tobin. It would be as if two dealers were offering you the same Cadillac and one was sell long-distan- nt long-distan- ing it for $10,000 and the other for $6,000. AT&T disputes the idea that consumers are being offered the same e Cadillac. But the competition Page F-- Column 1 be-Se- 2, Shared Office Concept Catching On In Area; Tenants Get Full Service By Joe Rolando Tribune Staff Writer A concept has caught on in the Salt Lake Valley which allows small businesses to lease only the space they need in a large office complex. But for no additional cost they receive more services than they normally would receive from the typical lease agreement. Its basically an entrepreneurial thing, observed Jack A. Woodward, commercial leasing specialist for the Salt Lake-base- d Eagar and Co.So-meon- e leases a floor and then they turn around and sublease office spaces. The mechanism that makes it possible is what is called a master lease agreement between the building owner and the entrepreneur. Mr. Woodward said among the extra services the entrepreneur offers tenants on a shared basis are receptionist, secretarial and even use of a conference and lunch room. For example, a receptionist in the lobby answers all phone calls for a number of different businesses but personalizes each by mentioning the name of the company. Shared Office Suites Kenneth EL Coombs, who subleases space to businesses that way at the American Plaza Two, 57 W. 200 South, and at the newly built Union Park Center, 1150 E. Fort Union Blvd., calls the concept shared office suites, although he admits a more accurate name would be shared office facilities. Mr. Coombs also provides tenants with some optional services that cost full-servi- Chrysler Executives Awarded Bonuses DETROIT (AP) Chrysler Corp. directors have approved a 1983 bonus plan that increases the size of the pie for middle-levexecutives. to avoid the kind wanted Chrysler of discontent that Ford Motor Co. suffered when it announced its bonuses four months ago. Ford executives at the top received far bigger shares of bonus money. Chrysler directors, voting Thurs--dadid not release the amount of bonus money to be paid Chairman Lee Iacocca or any other top executive, saying they would not do so until federal law requires it. That would be next April in the companys annual proxy statement to shareholders. The directors said they had approved a total bonus package for an amount less than the $51.6 million el ( y, Kennecott as leading private employer in Utah, with work force equivalent of 6,500. Since devastation of the copper industry, Brigham Young University has replaced that shareholders approved June more than just their monthly rent These includes typing services on either a typewriter or a word processor and photo copying. Mr. Coombs also provides hookup to a central computer system for no extra charge. Its shared office suites really designed for the small business person, said Mr. Coombs. Everyone wants to deal with someone successful. . . So we create an image of success so that individual businesses can come in and rent and have all the support systems that can make them sucessful. More Attractive The property manager said leasing shared office suites are much more attractive and professional than using a telephone answering recording device or the family home as a place of business. He said the favorable impression he may have had of a person in small business is destroyed when he reaches their telephone answering device or their spouse at home, where the telephone picks up the. sounds of children and the television. That businessman will wind up working for someone else because people want to deal with a successful person, said Mr. Coombs. A person calling in wants to be serviced. Mr. Coombs claimed business people who lease his suites, available with or without furnishings, can can save as much as 50 percent of their operating costs. He said it would cost the typical small business just to open its doors about $15,000 to provide those services and bu the necessary office equipment and furniture and at least $10,000 to $12,000 a year in personnel salaries. Expense and professionalism considerations aside, shared office suites also free tenants from office chores, giving them more time to devote to their business, Mr. Coombs said. He estimated the time savings amounts to about one hour every business day or about 25 hours a month. He charges about $300 to $625 a month rent depending on the size of the suites and the furnishings required. A $300 suite measures about 11 by 14 feet, enough room for a desk and seating. The $625 suite provides about 13 by 20 feet of space. But not everyone who has leased a shared office suite feels it is a good arrangement for every small business. For example, Mirian McFad-deSalt Lake City, who operated her, real estate firm by the same name in a shared office suite for about a year, ' ' said she would recommend them only 11 for businesses which have regular of- - 7 fice hours. Clients Frustrated She said among the reasons she , moved to another office was that1 " many clients called her after they were off work but couldnt get a hold 'J.7 of her because the receptionist wasnt on duty that late. She said it also was y ' hard to meet clients at the suite after working hours because the office r floor was usually locked and she had to either wait for them downstairs in the lobby, escort them up the elevator and use her key to unlock the door or notify a security guard to do that for her. However, local newspaper advertisements indicate that some shared office suite developments now offer :0 ..il receptionist service. Ms. McFadden said she also found See Page F-Column 1 !.i n, ( 1 24-ho-ur 2, "! 7 at the annual meeting. They did not say how much they subtracted from the $51.6 million. A statement issued in the name of director A. Jean de Grandpre said only that the total awards came to a prudent amount The number of Chrysler executives covered by the bonus plan stayed the same at 1,465. The bonuses were the first to be awarded at Chrysler in seven years. 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