Managing employees was an extremely specialized field.
Countless scholars and experts had researched the problems involved in personnel management.
Whether related to them or not, they studied it all.
Sociology, psychology, behavioral science...
As long as it was helpful for management, they read it! They had even found many valuable insights in a book called How Sheepdogs Work, which could better help businesses or rulers manage the people under them.
Lin Qi was someone with plenty of ideas and experience in this area.
Even with not a penny in his pocket, he could rely on his eloquence and abilities to gather a group of people to make money for him anytime, anywhere.
Not to mention that his current circumstances were already heavenly.
For ordinary people, living and surviving were the most important things.
They simply did not care about anything else.
When the news spread that Lin Qi had decided to deduct half of three months' wages from the employees who had filled in for vacant positions, while sternly warning all workers against forming private associations again and prohibiting them from expressing their demands through "protests," "strikes," or other means...
Everyone actually...
"Master Lin Qi is a good man!"
One worker said this.
Master Lin Qi really was a good man. Although he had deducted half of three months' wages, at least everyone could survive again.
Afterward, new wage-distribution plans and explanations were posted on the factory's bulletin board.
From the moment the new factory was established, everyone's wages had risen. Moreover, wages varied clearly according to the position and skill level.
An engineer could earn around one thousand O'er a month.
Even ordinary laborers could earn around four hundred a month.
The old workers from the former factories had their years of service bought out at a rate of