As I was going through this past weekend’s edition of the Argus Leader I came across their yearly publication ‘Welcome’.
With employment I found some interesting numbers. Obviously, the fewer full-time staff you have, the less benefits you have to pay out, though I will admit, Hy-Vee does offer 401K, bonuses and healthcare to part-time employees. Whether they take it or not is another story.
Smithfield was the best claiming of their 3,400 employees ALL were full-time. BRAVO!
Hy-Vee was dead, dead, dead, last of their 3,347 employees only 719 were full-time (which is probably mostly management and supervisors running an army of teenagers and retirees). No wonder Milky Way can’t find anyone to work for him.
The city doesn’t fair well either, of their 1,585 employees, only 1,256 were full-time, and I heard half of them worked in the engineering department 🙂
But my favorite was the vagueness and secrecy of Walmart. They said they had 1,500 employees in Sioux Falls and that (a majority were full time). They also stated they love the environment and that 99% of their products come from the United States 🙂