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'Old economy' practices help firm succeed
Bryan Oller/The Gazette
Greg
Walthour, founder and president of International Webworks,
says his firm kept its plastic tables and focuses on overhead
and quality ideas.
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At International Webworks Inc., employees work on
plastic tables, executives sometimes take out the garbage, and the
firm's founder drives one of the oldest -- and possibly ugliest
-- cars in the parking lot. The online company is not on the verge
of folding, nor has it resorted to its low-budget operation out
of necessity, as have many other Internet firms that imploded this
year. 
Employers push workers to stay home to cut
costs
NEW YORK -- Employees at DiamondCluster
International knew business was bad when senior executives agreed
to a 15 percent salary cut and CEO Mel Bergstein said he would
slice his own pay to zero. But when the Chicago consulting firm
told rank-and-file employees they'd have to swallow some of the
bitter medicine, too, it administered it in novel form -- by furloughing
200 workers for six months with partial pay and mandating two
weeks of unpaid vacation for everyone else.
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