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I read a study in TechWeek (Silicon Valley locale) that high tech companies
with no drug testing were more productive than companies with drug testing.
I can't find it on their Web site but here's a reference to the same or a
similar study:
In a recent study of high tech industries, researchers found that "drug
testing programs do not succeed in improving productivity. Surprisingly,
companies adopting drug testing programs are found to exhibit lower levels
of productivity than their counterparts that do not... Both pre-employment
and random testing of workers are found to be associated with lower levels
of productivity."
Source: Shepard, Edward M., and Thomas J. Clifton, Drug Testing and Labor
Productivity: Estimates Applying a Production Function Model, Institute of
Industrial Relations, Research Paper No. 18, Le Moyne University, Syracuse,
NY (1998), p. 1.
-----Original Message-----
From: bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com [mailto:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:47 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Ethics and Job-Hunting
The only job I've had in the last 10 years that did not require a pee-pee
test before starting was as a retail inventory auditor. Not surprisingly,
that company was full of druggies, and when I was a team leader there I had
to actually get one fired for it (well, actually for stealing Valium from a
pharmacy we were counting and then driving a company van under the influence
of 6 or 7 of them the next day).
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