[lbo-talk] the modern worklife

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 25 12:12:38 PDT 2004


At 10:00 AM -0400 5/25/04, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote:
>BLOOMBERG STAFFERS COMPLAIN ONLINE
>Employee morale is so low at Michael Bloomberg 's news company,
>Bloomberg LLC, that staffers have taken to complaining anonymously
>on ourbloomberg.com.
>http://www.nypost.com/gossip/21523.htm
>http://www.ourbloomberg.com/

OurBloomberg redirects to a Newspaper Guild site, so this isn't exactly spontaneous kvetching. But the demands on employee time are amazing:


>Matt Winkler asked Princeton employees in January to compare
>priorities between their families and homes - and their jobs. If
>your personal life comes first, you shouldn't work for Bloomberg,
>Matt said. Matt has tried to impose mandatory minimum 10-hour
>workdays more than once in the past year. He's even asked a team
>leader to interrupt a reporter's vacation by doing work for
>Bloomberg - while the one freedom the Bloomberg Way clearly states
>is that the staff is entitled to be out of communication when on
>vacation.



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