Law Firm Sees Advantage in High-Tech Elevators: Separation from IRS Agents
High-tech elevator systems can separate employees according to rank or redirect a doomed worker to human resources.
One Denver law firm saw another benefit, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. It asked the elevator company for its building to separate its lawyers from Internal Revenue Services employees. The story does not name the law firm, a tenant at 1999 Broadway.
The special dispatch-system elevators are made by Otis Elevator Co. and Schindler Elevator Corp., and they have been installed in about 200 buildings around the country. The Wall Street Journal explains how they work: Elevator riders select their floor on a key pad in the lobby, and they are directed to a specific elevator.
The system reduces stops and cuts the number of people in each car. It also reduces the need for workers segregated in nonexecutive elevators to be prepared to impress their bosses with a so-called “elevator pitch,” the story says.
The Wall Street Journal reveals another elevator secret: In many elevators, those “door close” buttons only work when switched to a special mode by firefighters in a rescue. “It’s only there to keep you occupied,” said Jeff Blain, a Schindler sales manager. Blain is also the source who told the newspaper of the IRS-agent-averse law firm.
Several law firms occupy the 1999 Broadway building, according to the Denver Westword blog, which noted the story.
