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Subject:Re: $ per word - quantifying TW From:"Kahn, Stacey" <skahn -at- WB -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:48:44 U
The problem with measuring production or pay by word, keystroke, inch of paper,
or anything else is that it turns TWing into piecework instead of a profession.
It's in neither our interest nor our clients' interests to reward activity over
quality.
FWIW.
--Stacey Kahn
SKahn -at- wb -dot- com Washington, DC
speaking for myself and not for my employers