Archive for October, 2008
Life as a Temporary Employee…
According to The American Staffing Association, temporary and contract staffing agencies employed 2.96 million people each day and 11.4 million individuals over the course of 2007.
We all know of someone who has had a temporary job. And I am sure that we have all heard one horror story or another about a bad boss, a [...]
Socialize, Learn, Focus, Collaborate – Key to Successful Work Environment!
The Gensler survey makes evident that improving business performance via workplace improvements depends on the quality of space functionality and effectiveness, not quantity of space. Specifically, designing a workplace to support the right proportion of four knowledge work modes – focus, collaboration, learning, and socializing – is a key differentiator between top-performing companies and average [...]
Fact Based Announcements – But Where’s The Empathy?
It seems to be an every day occurrence and today is no exception. Jeff Fettig the Chairman and Chief Executive of Whirlpool announced that the company would cut 5,000 jobs by the end of 2009.
According to Jeff, “The global credit crisis has had a profound negative impact on what was already a weakening and [...]
Would You Take a Pay Cut to Save a Colleague?
There was a very insightful article in The Sunday Times titled “Take a pay cut to save a colleague’s job?” The article starts by asking a simple question.
Would you take a pay cut to save the job of a colleague? Say 10%? Twenty per cent? It then goes on to site a real life [...]
Ask Employees How to Improve the Experience – They Know What to Do!
We continued our benchmarking of retail companies today and headed off to The Bay. I periodically shop at The Bay and am often underwhelmed by the entire experience. Today was no exception.
I decided to go to the toy section to compare prices with Wal-mart. As I browsed the aisles, I was amazed to find that [...]
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