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4. i recall reading about the wd-40 company long ago, before even "outsourcing" was a common term --
Wed Jan 30, 2013, 03:08 PM
Jan 2013

they were quite literally a household name, and yet they had something like 14 employees at the time.
none of them chemists

basically just a ceo, a cfo, and a dozen contract administrators.

everything of consequence was outsourced.

production, warehousing, shipping, logistics, advertising, sales, everything.

it was a harbinger of things to come as other companies took to the idea of outsourcing more and more.



today, there are more and more laws that companies with under 50 employees escape, so larger companies can split themselves up just for the sake of avoiding that "overhead".

bastards.

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