Volume 5 Chapter 46 - Annual work report (1/2)

Although winter’s arrival didn’t affect the weather in the Stantine Duchy, the end of the year that was approaching did affect people a bit.

For example, the workers that came from outside the Stantine Duchy, a year before the New Years vacation, had started preparing to head home to celebrate.

Two years ago, the workers would all choose to ride the Fersen Transport Chamber of Commerce’s public transport lines in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s base in the Stantine Duchy to head home.

Because the vehicles were limited and there was plenty of traffic, many people had to wait several days before they could leave. There were more people who just directly rode the transport Magic Cars to various places.

However, there was a good piece of news from the company when December came.

Sir chairman out of consideration of letting each worker go home easier, had reached a special agreement with the Fersen Transport Chamber of Commerce. Starting the middle of December, there would be special public transport Magic Cars that would go from the Stantine Duchy to various places, specially used to take the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers home.

Moreover, this was treated as a benefit for the workers. This meant that if the workers chose to take the public transport home, they didn’t need to pay the fare, it would be paid by the company.

When this news spread, all the Frestech Chamber of Commerce workers cheered.

Many workers talked about this in secret. They all felt happy about their decision in choosing to work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and they couldn’t help laughing at those who caused trouble with the strike, in the end causing eighteen thousand workers to be fired at once.

“Ha, ha, those idiots. I already said that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was much stronger and they had to cause trouble. Look at them now, they caused sir chairman to be angry and were chased out, how can they enjoy these benefits?”

It didn’t matter if these workers were engaging in schadenfreude, they were all very satisfied with the benefits the Frestech Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced.

Because of this, the workers had been very enthusiastic during this time and the productivity of all the factories of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had increased, allowing them to complete several orders ahead of time.

“Ha, sir chairman, if we calculate it, our profits have increased by 13.7%, giving us profits of over seventy eight thousand gold coins. All we did was spend less than forty thousand gold coins on this benefit, so we earned quite a bit.” The financial manager Sebas looked at the financial report in his hand with an excited look.

“But it is only during this time. Once the workers return to normal, their level of productivity will also return to normal.” The household magic machine department manager Ankhto said.

Xu Yi sitting in the main seat waved his hand, “We implemented these benefits not to earn money, but to make it better for our workers. Therefore, earning more money is a good thing and it’s normal if we earn nothing. Compared to this, we should be studying how to make our workers more enthusiastic and increase our normal productivity.”

“This…..isn’t too realistic.” Heinz sitting on Xu Yi’s right shook his head, “The enthusiasm of the workers can only last a few days, it’s impossible to maintain it for a long time.”

The other high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the room nodded, feeling that Heinz was correct.

Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “The facts prove that the workers have the potential to work harder, but we haven’t found the method yet. As for how we should increase the enthusiasm of the workers and raise their efficiency, this requires people like you who manage the factories to think of ideas.”

Everyone revealed awkward looks, but they couldn’t refute it as they knit their brows to think.

“Alright, we’ll consider this later. Let’s talk about the next topic.” Xu Yi gave a clap and interrupted everyone’s thoughts. He turned to look at Kennard and gave him a nod, “Kennard, let’s have you first give us the work report of our company this year.”

Kennard agreed and stood up. He took the reports that he had already prepared and slowly spoke with a serious look on his face.

Based on the report of the CEO Kennard, they could see that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had maintained their shocking level of development.

In just a single year, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started cooperating with five more countries and invested in seventeen large household magic machine factories in those five countries.

Adding in the sixty five household magic machine factories the Frestech Chamber of Commerce invested in with the Lampuri Kingdom, the Rudson Kingdom, and the Drake Duchy this year and the factories they built in the past two years, other than in the Stantine Duchy, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had one hundred and fifty four household magic machine factories which they owned or jointly owned.

These factories operated all year round, selling all the household magic machines they produced. Not only did it generate large profits for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it brought great benefits to the various countries.

The most important thing for those countries was that in the factories they built with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, most of the workers were local workers. It had solved the problem of employment for those countries.

With the existence of these factories, it also drove the economy of the surrounding areas and made the living conditions of the people there better.

In short, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had a happy cooperation with these countries. Each country wanted the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest even more and deepen their cooperation.

Speaking of this, Kennard paused to look at Xu Yi before continuing, “Sir chairman, there are many countries that want to cooperate beyond just the household magic machines. For example, the Lampuri Kingdom has always wanted to set up a military magic machine factory with us. The Rudson Kingdom is very interested in the production magic machines. The other smaller countries are interested in investing in various other magic machines and the Magic Cars.”