Thursday, April 18, 2013

Tesco Monitor Employees At Motorola Armbands

There is a fine line between micromanaging and house arrest, and British store chain Tesco (TSCO) seems determined to cross it. According to the Irish Independent, employee distribution center Dublin company was forced to wear armbands that measure their productivity so severe that the company even know when they take a shower armbands istirahat.Pulau, officially known as the Motorola terminal arm-mounted, This looks like something between Game Boy and Garmin GPS devices. Terminal track how fast and competent employees unpack and scan the goods in the warehouse and give them grades. It also standards for unloading speed that workers are expected to meet. Monitor is turned off during lunch break the workers, but any-bathroom trip, visits fountain-reported lower the cost of their productivity. Tesco did not respond to requests for comment, so it is difficult to know if the arm band is success.In last year, Tesco has ramped up its productivity. From 2007 to 2012, the average number of full-time employees 40,000 square meters of standard Tesco superstore reportedly dropped nearly 18 percent. And in November, the company launched the program in Bangladesh to help the overseas garment workers' increased productivity while improving conditions, "the company put it in a statement time.Unfortunately, it leads to the efficiency does not necessarily translate into quality. Tesco is one of the major retailers are currently involved in a scandal that the European horse meat. As it turns out the box of frozen spaghetti Bolognese meat contains 60 percent of the horse, it does not really matter how fast it is unloaded from the delivery truck.

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