Definitely not looking forward to tomorrow's drive for work

[doze]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
Most companies do this these days.
They can rent a couple of minivans for less than $1000 including the gas. That's a $2500 to $5000 savings on airfare. Having employees share rooms especially if you can pack 4 into a room saves them 75% on hotel costs.

This isn't the 60's when employees were an asset. Today employees are a liability and companies have a responsibility to their stockholders, not their employees.
I don't think it's right but I don't own even one company so I have no say in it.

Yeah but they are also paying 14 people to sit in a van do nothing for 2 days. If these people make $15~20 an hour then the company loses all of the money they saved and more by not having the people at work and losing profit.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: doze

Originally posted by: Freejack2
Most companies do this these days.
They can rent a couple of minivans for less than $1000 including the gas. That's a $2500 to $5000 savings on airfare. Having employees share rooms especially if you can pack 4 into a room saves them 75% on hotel costs.

This isn't the 60's when employees were an asset. Today employees are a liability and companies have a responsibility to their stockholders, not their employees.
I don't think it's right but I don't own even one company so I have no say in it.

Yeah but they are also paying 14 people to sit in a van do nothing for 2 days. If these people make $15~20 an hour then the company loses all of the money they saved and more by not having the people at work and losing profit.

Exactly. That is a loss of productivity, which is VERY expensive. Not only do they have to pay each employee for the trip, but they also have to pay for the lost work that the employees would otherwise be doing. For a salesperson, this could be huge since they aren't selling anything. That is why most companies fly their employees. They simply can't afford to pay them to sit around in a van all day doing nothing.

What company do you work for and what do you do?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: doze

Originally posted by: Freejack2
Most companies do this these days.
They can rent a couple of minivans for less than $1000 including the gas. That's a $2500 to $5000 savings on airfare. Having employees share rooms especially if you can pack 4 into a room saves them 75% on hotel costs.

This isn't the 60's when employees were an asset. Today employees are a liability and companies have a responsibility to their stockholders, not their employees.
I don't think it's right but I don't own even one company so I have no say in it.

Yeah but they are also paying 14 people to sit in a van do nothing for 2 days. If these people make $15~20 an hour then the company loses all of the money they saved and more by not having the people at work and losing profit.

Exactly. That is a loss of productivity, which is VERY expensive. Not only do they have to pay each employee for the trip, but they also have to pay for the lost work that the employees would otherwise be doing. For a salesperson, this could be huge since they aren't selling anything. That is why most companies fly their employees. They simply can't afford to pay them to sit around in a van all day doing nothing.

What company do you work for and what do you do?

I am a QA Manager for a start up food processing facility. With the short notice on this trip and recently hiring our crews (my group and warehousing are heading up there) flying would have been extremely expensive. Each of us will have our own room at a fairly nice hotel (Radison). Additionally, since no production is currently happening, we could not justify the cost of flying.