In $2002,$ the VP for Human Resources of Big Rubber Gloves, Inc. $($BRG$)$

developed a new day care program for employees. He asked Asst. Mgr$.$

Mary Smithkowski to evaluate how it affected employees productivity

rates. To do her research, Mary gathered information on each of the

company's $100$ plants in various world$-$wide locations. For each plant, she

gathered information on the cost of the program per week and the average

weekly productivity rates. Mary found that program costs were over

$$150,000$ a year at $40$ plants and those plants had a productivity rate of $600$

gloves per worker per week. At another $40$ plants, the program cost was

$$100,000$ or less per year with production of $400$ gloves per week. The

remaining $20$ plants had program costs of between $$100,000$ and $$150,000$

per year, and a production rate of $500$ gloves per week.

Mary reasoned that high cost organizational day care programs produced

high productivity among employees. She recommended increased funding

for the organizational day care program because so many employees who

used the program were productive.