United Biscuits Network
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United Biscuits Network
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#2I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
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#3I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
There's one that immediately pops into mind: Walmart Radio.
It's hosted in Bentonville, but distributed to all the stores in the US, as well as some international locations.
Associates (Employees) can call in and request certain songs, give shout outs to another associate, etc.
https://www.walmartworld.com/content/walmart-world/en_us/rad...
Disclosure: Used to work at Walmart Corporate.
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#4I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
In the 90s, Microsoft support had a DJ spinnin' tunes while you waited:
https://www.wired.com/1994/04/radio-microsoft/ (check out those single-digit wait times.)
I worked there when it was still going, but I don't recall if it was employee-accessible or not. I seem to have some vague recollection of having heard it, but I might have been actually making a support call for a product.
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#5TIL. I thought this would be related to King Biscuit Time, "the longest-running daily American radio broadcast in history", but apparently it's just a coincidence:
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#6I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
When I worked in a factory they piped the local pop station over the PA system all day. At first it is really cool, but then when you've heard Alanis Morrisette for the 112th time that day, it can grate. And there is no escape :(
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#7In the 90s I worked at a pharmaceutical factory. They had little autonomous electric line follower vehicles that transported samples through the halls.
Because these moved very silently, every one of them had small transistor radio attached (in a makeshift way) that blared music through the buildings.
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#8TIL. I thought this would be related to King Biscuit Time, "the longest-running daily American radio broadcast in history", but apparently it's just a coincidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Biscuit_Time
The King Biscuit Flour Hour certainly did come to my mind when I saw the headline for TFA:
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#9See also:
LEO, the first business computer system in the world, built in 1951 by J. Lyons & Co to calculate the cost of cake ingredients.
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#10I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
When I worked in a factory they piped the local pop station over the PA system all day. At first it is really cool, but then when you've heard Alanis Morrisette for the 112th time that day, it can grate. And there is no escape :(
> And there is no escape :(
From the irony? ;)