# Ford gives every employee a PC

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/02/07/ford-gives-every-employee-pc/
- Published: 2000-02-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Ford Motor Company has agreed with a trade union to give every employee, all 350,000
of them, a PC, colour printer and Internet access for $5 a month.<
Ford Motor Company
has agreed with a trade union to give every employee, all 350,000 of them, a PC,
colour printer and Internet access for $5 a month.

The skills development opportunities are immense, as are the possible savings and
improvements on internal communications. The programme launches in the US in April
and internationally within a year.

Will UK trade unions develop similar IT-related packages? UK Fundraising has already
reported on the UNISON free ISP. Employee fundraisers will be quick to spot the 
possibility of accessing all the Ford employees via the Net, once this system has
been created.

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Read Ford Giveaway: Philanthropy, or Business as Usual? at The Standard.

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