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Show t f EVERY EMPLOYE--FROM OFFICE BOY UPA DIRECTOR IN CHICAGO FIRM j By EDWARD M thikrry, S. E, A suiff Correspondent, . CHICAGO If uu can t mak- you" office boy work, try this new and novo: plan Make the office boy a director In the firm! Decidedly revolutionary, isn't it? Sounds Boishevtki. but it's nothing of the sort. NEW PLAN'S IN XRCK It's the way a Chicago advertising .firm Is running a new prof It -sharing Iplan. The firm Is tha Btoll & VVII1-I VVII1-I lams Art Service, with branches In Cleveland and New York. There is no such thing as employ' ilVery worker. including the old P,rl iters and all employes Including the; telephone operator and the office boy are "directors." Any pernon may be! discharged by a vote of the directors j Salaries are based on production. By Is nystem of awarding points bonuses are distributed. Does It work? Well, the other night . according to William V Williams one of their office boys worked until S o'clock at night getting out some 'mall that had to bo in Cleveland th-next th-next day. And the office boy did this overtime voluntarily! "Mr. Stol apd I have cut our salaries sal-aries &0 per cent." said Williams. "We I came to the decision that the onlv way to get results In this restlesa age was I to make very employe a partner. "Wo hire any man on the suggestion of an employe. We don't tol him hn much we are going t( pay. but we ask what he Is worth Three weeks decides The rest of the employes tell at whether the newcomer Is earning his salary. If he Isn't he leavea by vote " The firm bankn Its entire profit Fifty per eont Is divided among the members of the staff quarterly and the other 50 per cent is divided annu-,tll annu-,tll Tne plan was put into effect Oct. 20." |