Workers come and go as they please. They make vital decisions previous 【M1】 ______
made by the bosses. Secretaries have been abolished. The assembly line has
been abandoned, as has economies of scale like buying components in bulk. A 【M2】 ______
quarter of employers fix their own salaries and soon everyone will. The workers【M3】 ______
decide how many of the profits to share and how much to invest. Many of the 【M4】 ______
rest are discouraged to work from or set up their own small companies. Em- 【M5】 ______
ployees reorganize their factories and choose new sites for development. Cen-
tral computers have been forgotten along with rows of unnecessary filing cabi-
nets. Memos must be confined in one page. There are no controls over expert- 【M6】 ______
ses or business travel. There is a reception desk, and no receptionist. The 【M7】 ______
boss doesn't even have his own desk and has to make his own tea.
The company, Semco, is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, makes pumps, 【M8】 ______
dishwashers and cooling units. It has been crawled over by the media and
hundred of curious corporations including 150 of the Fortune top 500 compa- 【M9】 ______
nies in the US. Semco has increased profits fivefold to nearly $ 3 million on
sales approaching $ 30 million. It exports 23 percent of output. Productively
has risen sevenfold and the company was free of debt. 【M10】 ______
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