Social Investing
Moskowitz, Milton
Editors: As co-author of Fortune magazine's annual survey, "The 200 Best Companies to Work For," I must take excepTo Letter Writers • We welcome succinct letters from our readers. But because...
...We reserve the right to edit letters to fit our space and to choose which shall be printed...
...What can we expect from a list in which companies can nominate themselves...
...tion to Mark T. Harris's putdown of this list in his denunciation of Whole Foods Market in the Winter 2006 issue ("Welcome to 'Whole-Mart...
...We are unable to acknowledge letters...
...He hasn't gone out to interview employees at Whole Foods or at other companies on our list...
...Letters must be no more than 500 words, typed, double-spaced, and carry the full address and name of the sender...
...Harris knows best...
...Never mind what customers may feel about the quality of the food they buy at Whole Foods or the service they receive from enthusiastic employees who buy into the mission of the company...
...Editors: As co-author of Fortune magazine's annual survey, "The 200 Best Companies to Work For," I must take excepTo Letter Writers • We welcome succinct letters from our readers...
...let him walk into a Whole Foods store and try out his ideas on employees...
...But because we have a long lead time for each issue, you have to send us your letter within three weeks of getting an issue of Dissent in order to get it into the next issue...
...His gold standard is, Does the company have a union...
...The only way companies can make this list is to have employees who like working there...
...He misleads your readers by not disclosing that the methodology we use involves a fifty-sevenquestion survey in which randomly selected employees voice their opinions about the practices in their workplaces, including such issues as pay, benefits, and respect...
...He doesn't have to do that because he has already made up his mind that he knows what they need: a union...
...Never mind what workers think and feel about their jobs...
...We accept e-mail submissions to editors@ dissentmagazine.org , but request that you provide a street address and phone number...
...Letters will not be returned to senders unless they are accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes...
...MILTON MOSKOWITZ Mill Valley, Calif...
...Harris obviously doesn't care about what employees think...
...he asks...
...In Dissent, he is preaching to the choir...
Vol. 53 • April 2006 • No. 2
