Carole Manning: Return to investment

After reading your Oct. 11 Work & Money article “Tech marketing firm puts benefits before profits,” my husband and I remembered his company doing that very same thing back in the 1970s. The only difference was that this was how businesses treated employees. None of what these two co-founders are doing now is new.

My husband’s company paid employees everything they needed to do charity work. They were even called the pioneers of the company. After years of employee and contractor exploitation, these two co-founders have acted upon what “shareholder greed” has taken away from our youth.

It is nice to see a company go back to doing what used to be taken for granted with its workforce. These two co-founders also know that investing in their employee with a salary and medical plan that retain the workforce will only benefit the company long term.

It is a shame that we have to go back to the past greed and mistakes in order to go forward to give our youth what we had already achieved.

This story was originally published October 12, 2015 at 4:38 PM with the headline "Carole Manning: Return to investment."