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Object-oriented Programming

Notes
Did u know? How to find a String within a String?
Searching a string within another string is a breeze with std::string. The Standard Library
defines several specialized overloaded versions of string::find() that take const string&,
const char *, or just char as a sought-after value (the substring).
Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
14. There is no direct operator that could act upon the…………………... .
15. String objects are a special type of container, specifically designed to operate with sequences
of…………………... .

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Caselet Every Inch of Space Counts

t 6:30 p.m., Ramesh, a 55-year-old-accountant, is leaving the office and his son
Pratik is heading to work at the call centre unit of the same company. They both
Awork in the same building but meet each other only on weekends.
Top executives of their departments have independently discussed their requirements
with the CFO for approving a larger facility due to the growth in business in their units.
In an ideal scenario, they should expand into each other’s existing location. That is the
magic of “seat utilization”.
Companies have always preferred to keep the seat utilization ratio (employees/seats)
less than 1.0 and built the extra capacity in the facility to accommodate future expansion,
minimum for the next two years.
The concept of working in multiple shifts has existed right from the early days of mass
production, where the most expensive heavy machinery needed to be run 24×7 for
maximum utilization.
If we take 160 hours(8 hrs day for 20 days) as the office hours per person per month, and
each seat is available for 720 hrs (24 hrs per day for 30 days), it means an absolute
mathematical maximum limit seat utilization of 4.5 (720/160).

By apportioning the leaves of the employee throughout the week (even during the week
days) and thus enforcing forced absenteeism in every working day, one of the large teams
in a leading BPO player has reached the seat utilization of more than 3.

Top 4 Cost Components
Currently, in the IT/ITES sectors, the top-four cost components are salary, space, technology
infrastructure and support services.

Salary and technology infrastructure are market-driven factors and comparable in most
companies of equal status.
The cost of support services is directly proportional to the employee strength and space.
Real-estate prices have jumped more than 200 per cent in the last three years in all major
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