A tower office block is the symbol of a factory, it’s face. Lots of people are of the same opinion about this statement. That’s why factories annually spend a huge amount of financial recourses for the tower office block service and support. But is such money spending wise and do factories themselves need such an expensive symbol? In spite of the risk to bring down the public anger I offer to view all sides of the question.
It is known that technologies are constantly developed. And the development is getting more intensive every year. If recently computers were an unimaginable luxury and the internet was a king of something extraordinary, now not a single factory can operate without it. Some people remember that in the recent past all the document flow had to be done by hand. Contracts, orders and instructions were typewritten. Specialists went from department to department for singing them and etc. To avoid the information lost documents had to be copied several times, registered in multivolume journals and kept in huge archives. For the purpose of making specialist work easier and documents keeping systematization there was a tower office block built under each factory to locate there all the administrative stuff of departments.
With the internet and digital technologies the document flow operation got much easier. There such programs appeared as corporate e-mail, electronic systems of document processing and keeping. With the innovations adoption the number of personnel was slowly decreased as one specialist became abele to do the work that had been done by several ones before. It was referred to manufacture itself either. As a result factories got a wide space of empty lost their efficiency offices. Here a question appeared: how to use the inefficient territory. But the territory non-functionality factories still had to bear expenses for their support, tax payment and etc. Obviously it would be wise to remove all administrative stuff of departments into the empty offices closer to manufacture and lend or sale the tower office building which is located outside the manufacture. But often such version of solution arouses negative reaction.
Here I would like to bring a real example of the Ural Turbine Factory in Yekaterinburg. The factory has to bear huge expenses for support of the tower office block built in 40s. So in 2013 about 250 million rubles were spent for its restoration. A big part of financial recourses is annually spent for the tower office block support and tax payment either. At the same time there is a recently built absolutely new empty engineering building the factory leaders cannot find appliance. Considering the fact that the building is located inside the manufacture territory its sale or lending is impossible. That means the factory has to bear inefficient expenses for support of the engineering building as well.
Then the factory leaders got an offer of solution. It was offered to remove all the administrative stuff into the empty engineering building and sale the tower office block. Such solution aroused negative reaction. The argument was that the tower office block is the factory symbol. But can the factory afford such an expensive symbol under sever condition of the modern world market?
Talking about the tower office block as of a symbol it should be considered that so called white collars who occupied it generally operate with the information received from their colleagues in the building. So the most administrative specialist don`t view the real factory situation. More over some of them working at the factory for years have never seen the manufacture process itself. That`s why all decisions are generated by habit and old well-known system which is not always appropriate. As a result it brings about ineffectiveness of work. The world experience shows that to understand the manufacture process and take right decisions for increasing work efficiency the factory administrative stuff should be located not in the “symbol” but close to the manufacture.
Perceiving the logic of such solution the leaders of OJSC “Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod” in the framework of industrial area development progect decided to remove the factory administrative stuff from the tower office block into empty offices close to the manufacture and sale or lend the tower office block. The financial profit of it is planned to be spent for the factory modernization and modern equipment purchase that will allow increasing the product quality and quantity. Moreover it will reduce production costs by means of inefficient expenses avoidance. The city in its turn gains one of the largest business centers in the region for banks, colleges, commercial organizations and restaurants.
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