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A class of their own: Agency.com's unorthodox training brings people together.(Statistical...

By Lee, Karen
Publication: Employee Benefit News
Date: Friday, September 1 2000

With training and development becoming the next big benefit, one company is trying to make its program not just good for you, but fun as well.

Until December, Agency.com, a New York-based, fee-for-service technological consulting firm that counts among its clients Compaq, Sprint and Texaco, didn't even have a training and development program, says Marie Mann, the company's vice president of human resources.

But starting with the hiring of Andersen Consulting veteran Mary von Herrmann as vice president of learning and development, the 5-year-old company has

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