Sentences with phrase «company town»

Yet the shock also has led to something fairly remarkable: The high - tech company town, now lacking its company, is finding a new energy of its own.

At any rate, I remember one day as I sat in one of our then moderately sized company town hall meetings when one of the very irascible yet popular vice presidents of the time was asked a question by the curious masses from the lower ranks.

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Implement a process through which all questions and concerns — whether generated online, at company town - hall meetings or impromptu learning events, are filtered to the highest levels within the organization

Thomas Sturgill was born and raised in Pound, Virginia, a rural company town whose heyday had long passed.

As CityLab notes, many early company towns served as a way for corporations to manage labor relations, since they owned all the homes and could evict strike leaders.

Facebook is one of the few companies in recent years to continue the legacy of the traditional company town, where the corporation master - plans a new community for its employees to work and live in.

North Richmond, Calif.'s political climate is transforming from polluted company town to vanguard in the quest for environmental equity

Ride more than 20 paved miles along the Hocking River — through woods, countryside, and the Ohio University Campus — on what USA Today called one of 15 scenic bike rides in the U.S. Along the way, you'll pass historic sights like the old Eclipse Company Town mining village and the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway.

At their peak a century ago, there were more than 2,500 company towns housing 3 % of the US population, according to The Economist.

Since the 19th century, companies have built company towns across the United States — municipalities where they own large percentages of the housing, stores, schools, churches, roads, and parks.

More modern company towns, like Hershey, Pennsylvania (named after famed chocolatier Milton Hershey's candy corporation), gave residents say in what the town prioritized.

The managers of Singapore Inc. tend to treat local citizens somewhat like the employees of an old - fashioned company town.

But most industrial facilities had split off from East St. Louis by the early 1900s, forming their own company towns to avoid the city's regulations and taxes.

Waterford company town his brother is.

Violent Saturday opens with a bang — a dynamite blast in the copper mine outside of a small Arizona town, building expectations for an explosive film — but settles into a mood of anxiety and anticipation in the long lead - up to the robbery, a mix of heist film deliberation and soap opera melodrama in what it essentially a provincial company town in the shadow of the mines.

It's a former oil company town — in the «60s, Sinclair stations with their friendly green dinosaur logos were plentiful in my hometown of Milwaukee.

The works on view represent a recently rediscovered series of works from 1981, all inspired by Lipschutz's hometown of Eagle Mountain, CA, an desert Army training ground turned into a Kaiser Steel mining company town before being abandoned for good in 1981.

These sites — former boomtowns established around specific industries and occupied by laborers — are the subject of Lee Anne Schmitt's haunting new film, California Company Town.

The LAT «s Company Town cites a single source saying Yahoo had approached Hulu about a possible acquisition but this isn't necessarily what touched off the internal discussions at Hulu.

Some have similar tactics to early company towns, while other companies build massive headquarters that dominate an existing community's infrastructure and space — and create a new ecosystem of businesses around the swelling employee population.

When it began, Irvine was not a traditional company town, since most residents did not work at the Irvine Company, a real estate developer.

This is Richmond today: A dynamic, multi-cultural community that is transforming its political climate from a polluted company town to a vanguard in the environmental justice movement.

At a company town hall meeting, CNN president Jeff Zucker reportedly took some heat over the network's expansive Trump coverage.

«We've got a lot invested in our brand,» John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, told a company town hall after the Amazon deal was disclosed.

The ecommerce giant may turn another (undetermined) city into a company town when it builds a second headquarters that will staff 50,000 employees.

Since then, the concept of the company town has evolved.

In 1948, Kaiser Steel Corporation (led by noted industrialist Henry J. Kaiser) founded the company town of Eagle Mountain, California.

Meanwhile, Amazon recently announced that it will build a second headquarters that could effectively turn the chosen city into a company town — much like what happened to Seattle when the online retail giant came to Seattle in the late 1990s.

Now a ghost town, Table Rock, Wyoming was founded by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town to house workers during the region's housing shortage in the late 1970s.

Much of present - day Astoria, Queens in New York City started as Steinway Village, a company town developed by the piano company Steinway & Sons.

And as CityLab notes, Hershey's Utopian, progressive vision for a company town could be why the present - day community is (relatively) economically healthy.

For all its size and diversity, this is still a company town, and the company, Intrawest ULC, defaulted on its debt payments late last year, leading to worries that foreclosure would disrupt the Winter Olympics being held here in February.

In addition to company town - hall meetings twice a year and live Q&A s to keep every employee up - to - date, our team also uses tools like TINYpulse and CultureIQ to stay current on each employee's opinions.

Frisco, Texas, is proposing turning its small city — a population of about 160,000 over 62 square miles — into a company town dominated by Amazon.

The nation's capital may be the seat of government, but it's hardly a one company town.

Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has become a company town for the garment trade, building its hopes of economic growth to a staggering degree on the manufacture and export of clothes.

For an employee looking to improve her public speaking skills or raise her industry profile, help her get invited to participate on a panel at an industry event or present at a company town hall.

While other companies, like Capital One and Lockheed Martin, have headquarters nearby, Washington is a company town — with the company being the government.

But the executives» silence seemed to attract more attention to Facebook's woes — especially after neither Zuckerberg nor Sandberg appeared at a company town hall meeting Tuesday.

This would represent the very essence of a company town.

Yale was the company in this company town.

Company town — company church: The era of subordination to the Adams family was remembered primarily by its attention to linkages: the physical and economic associations of the church with the Adams Company, the replication in Wiltshire of a historic Anglican church structure, the adherence of the church to the lives and fortunes of the Adams lineage.

They make caskets in Batesville, a company town of 4,700 people that sits astride Interstate 74 some 45 miles northwest of Cincinnati.

At 8 p.m., the documentary «Company Town» makes its first theatrical debut at Cinema Village, with an introduction from state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Cinema Village, 22 East 12th St., Manhattan.

In any company town, when the major employer is planning layoffs, people get worried.

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