Rolando Rosas is the Founder of Global Teck Worldwide, which offers business and office technology for seamless customer communications. In his role, he leads his team to provide insights on e-commerce trends, digital marketplace strategies, and client success metrics. Rolando is also the Founder of CircuitLoops.com, which uses AI to match businesses to the lowest-priced internet service provider. As an entrepreneur, he has founded three startups and hosts the What The Teck? podcast.
Dave Kelly is the General Manager of Global Teck Worldwide and the co-host of the What The Teck? podcast. He holds a bachelor’s in telecommunications management from the New England Institute of Technology, where he focused on the acceleration of networks transitioning from digital IP to support successful business communications. Before Global Teck Worldwide, Dave was the Account Manager at Jabra and the Territory Manager at Polycom.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- [0:00] Rolando Rosas and Dave Kelly delve into past and future work trends
- [6:31] How Henry Ford revolutionized employee loyalty and retention in 1914
- [13:48] The widespread adoption of the eight-hour, five-day workweek
- [22:27] Does remote work mitigate the impacts of inflation?
- [27:59] Dave and Rolando address the correlations between past and present work demands
- [32:41] Adapting the traditional work week to accommodate technology advancements
- [39:13] How companies are creating customized work structures
- [45:13] The downfalls of return-to-work mandates — and how to develop centralized hubs for in-person work
- [53:20] What are the surprising benefits of remote work?
In this episode…
Labor structures have evolved and improved significantly over the past 100 years. In 1914, progressive historical figure Henry Ford instilled an eight-hour work week at 62 cents per hour. While the US federal minimum wage wasn’t established until 1924, and national standards surrounding equitable wages and labor hours weren’t widely adopted until 1938, this set the stage for worker standards today. However, some antiquated criteria persist, leading many to demand radical change.
With inflation at a record high and the federal minimum wage remaining at $7.25 an hour, workers receive less value for their dollar today than they did during the inception of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Although early labor demands like unsafe working conditions and difficult commutes have been addressed, employees today still request meaningful work and more free time. The introduction of technology has made in-office work settings unnecessary in many cases, and progressive labor advocates Rolando Rosas and Dave Kelly maintain that remote work reduces inflationary costs for employees. Additionally, remote work allows for a four-day workweek without compromising productivity.
Join Rolando Rosas and Dave Kelly in today’s installment of What The Teck? as they address the evolution of labor market trends. Together, they talk about why you shouldn’t force employees to return to the office, how to refine the traditional work week, and how to customize work structures for the employee.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Rolando Rosas on LinkedIn
- Dave Kelly on LinkedIn
- Global Teck Worldwide
- Circuit Loops
- Nick Bloom on LinkedIn
- WFH Research
- “Building a Tech Company: How To Disrupt the Market With Innovative Smartphones” with Sandeep Chennakeshu on What The Teck?
- “Creating Modern Work Policies: How Enhancing Job Quality Boosts Your Bottom Line” with Ellen Frank-Miller on What The Teck?
Sponsor for this episode…
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Since 2002, Global Teck Worldwide has provided affordable, high-quality communications equipment and customized telecommunications services to organizations of all sizes.
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Episode Transcript:
Rolando Rosas 0:00
Before Henry Ford started paying that $5 an hour, it was common in the US to have towns and cities where you would have an employer that basically dictated the rules where workers weren’t. They basically set the stage for workers to work where the employer said you should work. And it was still common to have those wages be low, and then tell those workers you can only shop at the store. These are the stores affiliated with us kind of like a campus environment. If
Dave Kelly 0:29
Connecticut is home to some of the largest American owned insurance companies, and when you go on to these campuses, they give you everything, they don’t have housing, but they do give you everything that you would need. They’re trying to get employees to come in. So they want to make it convenient. I had visited one of these insurance companies, and it was lunchtime, and I said, Why don’t we go out? And they said, no, no, we’ll go stay in our cafeteria. He said that it’s frowned upon to leave during the workday. Whoa,
Rolando Rosas 0:58
hold on. Ah Welcome to What The Teck?, your gateway to business strategies and tech secrets, shaping today’s workplace.
Dave Kelly 1:16
Rolando, good to see you man. Hey, Jim, remember last week, you had come out of a meeting and you seemed pretty excited about something and I asked you what it was. And you said Dave, it’s it’s just a small victory. But sometimes it’s smaller that something about the small victories
Rolando Rosas 1:32
by Goodfield take take it when you get a small victory taking them in?
Dave Kelly 1:35
Absolutely. Listen, I got a personal small victory that I think hopefully some of our listeners can relate to here. So I’ve lived in this town for 20 years. I have an infatuation with fresh bread. It’s been bakeries that have popped up in my neighborhood. And then I go in thinking there’s bread and it’s cakes, cupcakes, treats and stuff like that get
Rolando Rosas 1:54
pulled in by this now you
Dave Kelly 1:56
do but you want to find a place that makes breads, you know, you don’t have cakes all the time. It’s not a staple. But after 20 years of living here, I’m I just started to ask the question, and people are telling me about this bread place. It’s like three miles away from my house. They specialize in different sourdoughs croissants. They have chocolate filled crisp reviews online. You know, people like this is the best croissant I’ve had better than anything I’ve ever had in France and people are jumping on so I feel like I just discovered like, I just discovered the the soup Nazi. And now it’s the bread, you know, so we have bread, and I’m just so excited. You know, so excited, even though it’s bread prices are not cheap, especially if it’s real good quality stuff, but man loves No,
Rolando Rosas 2:42
no, no, no, you remind me of I used to live in Florida, and not far from an Albertsons. So anybody that was around when Albertsons was in the heyday, they used to have fresh French bread that they would roll out, as we want to say it was around noon ish. So like, around lunchtime, it was so the aroma would fill and there would be like one or two racks of that, that they would actually make the bread and very few supermarkets and make the bread on premise. But they would make it they’ve rolled it out to the front, somewhere in the middle of all the checkout counters, and you could smell that bread. It smelled so good. I’d buy it and I wouldn’t be eating it in the parking lot. All the water I had half of it would make it home with me and about half that I put you know, a little butter or something else and eat just delicious. I love
Dave Kelly 3:28
good bread. Next time you’re invited over to someone’s house Sunday supper, you know, it’s sometimes it’s customary to bring a bottle of wine or bring a 12 pack of beer, but I’d say you bring some fresh bread to a party where it’s appropriate. Like a nice Sunday dinner. Man, you’re definitely going to be the head of the party. Oh, no. How much? Did you remember how much you paid for bread back then? For him that that low from Alberta? I
Rolando Rosas 3:51
don’t even recall man. I don’t even recall how much it was. It couldn’t have been too expensive, you know, but I just loved the taste. And speaking of bread, I wonder you’re asking me about cost. I wonder what it would have been like for the dollar to go stretch out? You know, way back in the day. I don’t want to say about 100 years. Let me see if chat TPTs got an answer on that. Let me let me just put in something here. So nine teen 420 It does have an answer for it. Look at that. Whoa, Dave, you’re not gonna believe this talk to you. I’m gonna believe this. Maybe you will back in 1914 thread costs six cents in the US more or less six cents. And today it’s 250. But what’s even more surprised at around 1914. So six cents to us. Seems like nothing a nickel right nickel. Sure. Back then the average worker that worked for Henry Ford in 1914 where he paid $5 a day it would only take six minutes, six minutes of their work hour, six minutes to pay for such breads. So six minutes six cents. So they’re getting paid about a penny a minute. And today with the minimum wage at 725, it would take 21 minutes to buy a bread that cost $2.50. They’re not buying that artisanal stuff that’s down the street from me. Yeah, I
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