Many employees of thriving companies struggle to find suitable housing that they can afford; that, coupled with transportation issues or difficulty getting to and from work, creates a dilemma that no employee contributing to the success of any company should be forced to deal with.
...The essential issue in many instances is unfair price gouging coupled with the requirement for an apartment applicant and any co-applicant to each (individually) have income that is thrice (three times) the rent in many cases (not all rentees require this). These same applicants/potential applicants might resort to residing for significant lengths of time in an extended stay hotel at nearly double or more what they would pay for an apartment or rental home...
Applicant income that is twice the rent for an individual and thrice the rent for collective income of an applicant and co-applicant sounds more logical. Every human being should be privy to housing. It is absolutely ridiculous that anyone since the invent and proliferation of housing has ever gone homeless.
...Company housing would resolve issues for both employers who are understaffed and employees experiencing housing, transportation, and other issues that are synonymous with lacking income. Poverty amongst people in general, housed and homelessness, is to a vast extent the reason for staffing shortages. Those with transportation issues are unable to get to work, those without proper clothing or resources to properly groom themselves do not have the confidence to approach an employer...
Simultaneously Resolving Homelessness and Staffing Shortages
...Studies show that more than 90% of homeless persons in the United States (over half a million people) are unemployed, a significant portion of whom are employable and could remedy staffing needs of many companies facing challenges filling vacant positions. It would thus behoove particularly large companies to offer housing among other incentives to attract and retain potential employment candidates. Having numerous employees within vicinity of a company could translate to improved attendance and production...
Participating companies would accept walk-in and call-in homeless individuals and they would literally retrieve un-sheltered persons from the streets via designated company vehicles, following established safety guidelines. They would further conduct recruiting initiatives at homeless shelters and transitional facilities, the Department of Labor, etc.
Companies would screen, hire, process, groom, and house stated individuals who are in fact employable. They would refer others to shelters and transitional facilities, which would have ample vacancies at this point (these disabled and/or elderly persons would receive assistance in acquiring Social Security, Medicare, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, and senior housing placement)...
Companies that do provide employee uniforms would provide them to their stated hires; they would otherwise refer their subject employees to agencies like Dress for Success, etc. that would provide them with clothing; they would employ barbers and beauticians to provide initial, company-paid grooming services and subsequent employee-paid services...
Company Apartments/Homes and their Amenities and Other Services
Company apartments would include newly built and acquired existent properties, including blighted or abandoned properly renovated apartments. For example, a staffing agency might own and offer their employees efficiencies. The stated apartments/homes would be on and off business campuses and furnished and unfurnished for employees with their own furniture...
Amenities of company apartments/homes would include laundry facilities and washer-dryer connections for certain units, childcare facilities, Wi-Fi, training centers, leisure facilities, and company shuttles that would transport employees to and from work, depending on the distance to their work sites.
Work Homes (Houses, Apartments, Condominiums, Townhomes, etc.)
A work home would be a joint real-estate and employment venture. It would avail an approved applicant a work-from-home job (i.e. a remote concierge, customer service representative, call-center representative, social media manager, web developer, instructor or tutor, etc.) in a home for purchase or rental (depending on the specific realtor/employer)...
Work homes would be furnished and unfurnished (for those with their own furniture) and each would include work rooms, internet service, and synonymous and proper equipment for each job, i.e. computers, printers, scanners, facsimile (fax machines), noise-cancelling head sets, call center stalls (where multiple employees would rent or purchase a home), exercise equipment (since these would be sedentary positions), and even vehicles that would be sitting in the driveway of the subject home that would be purchasable to subject employees in certain instances where an applicant may lack a vehicle...
Work homes would vary in size and price, ranging from affordability for the average person to middle class and wealthy individuals. All work homes would be nice, either new or perfectly renovated in communities with ample leisure resources, i.e. swimming pools, parks, walking/hiking trails, and basketball, tennis, and/or volleyball courts, etc.
Qualification for a work home would require an applicant to be approved for both the home and job. There would be no discrimination in acquiring a work home. Anyone qualifying for a work home would be capable of acquiring them and residing and working in any home they desire. Anyone would be capable of training for a work home at any synonymous training facility.
Imagine beautiful subdivisions of work homes, apartments, condominiums, and/or town homes, etc.
Employee Rent or Mortgage/Utilities Payments
Housed employees would pay 30% of their income in rent to their employer/landlord plus utilities; said rent/utilities would be incrementally deducted from employees' pay. Those initially lacking income would get a free first month or the initial month could be subsequently deducted from employees' pay over time.
This would be literally profitable to participating employers and employees in that companies would earn profits from renting apartments/homes to their employees and participating employees would save money by paying no more than what they should for rent.
Incentives for Participating Companies
Incentives such as tax breaks, grants, etc. would be provided to participating companies. All said companies demonstrating outstanding achievement in hiring and transforming lives/eliminating poverty and homelessness would be honored by city, state, and the federal government via formal ceremonies, press, and videoed and/or in person testimonies of subject employees whose lives have been transformed...
The stated program would be designed for especially employees with long-term employment interests in participating companies, though any employee would be at liberty to part ways with the company at any time, unless a contractual agreement for a specified length of employment exists between an employer and employee.
Conclusion
...Company housing would help companies to fill many vacant positions while providing shelter, income, and/or livelihood to participating employees and eliminating blight in many communities. It would put us on a path to a truly Utopian society. Amusing that we have not previously connected the dots...
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