Category: employee engagement
Why dress down Friday is a load of bollocks
Nigel Marsh has a blunt and simple approach to the concept of work-life-balance. And the reality of the society that we’re in is there are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they…
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BA Readies Staff Morale Boosting Campaigns
British Airways has had its share of troubles over the last few years with reducing volumes of business travel, rising fuel prices and staff strikes. Getting profitable growth back in the business will be a challenge as the original brand cachet has been diluted. BA will implement its employee engagement programme with a campaign “to…
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Munich Re held orgy for salesmen
Now here is an interesting twist on staff incentives and rewards. One of the biggest insurance companies in the world held a party for salesmen where they were rewarded with the services of prostitutes. The full story: BBC News – German insurer Munich Re held orgy for salesmen. I’m not sure I’ll be introducing it just…
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HR impact on business success
I wonder who will win? We, that is Sodexo Motivation Solutions, are sponsors of the HR impact on business success award this year at the CIPD People Management Awards 2010. The winner was decided back in September by a panel of judges and will be announced at the award ceremony this week, on 10 November 2010,…
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There’s more to reward than headline-grabbing stories about City bonuses
The past year has been a tale of two sectors for reward. While most private-sector organisations froze pay in 2009 to keep down costs, much of the public sector continued to award pay rises, typically of 2 to 4 per cent, often dictated by long-term pay deals. This year, with the economy poised on the…
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Are work web blockers a waste of time?
He points to the Palo Alto Networks report we mentioned earlier as proof of this, with the companies taking part all having multiple security technologies to control users and applications; “yet the data showed that unwanted applications, threats and bandwidth consumption were widespread”. >>> read the full article at PC Pro
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