Last week Business Pundit posted a chart of data provided by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on where 21 of the richest countries in the world stand in offering paid annual leave to their workers. As many U.S. workers know – and surely most all of their leaders and managers – our country is alone [...]
Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has an illuminating post on Small Business Trends this week in which, based on U.S. Census data of 6-year-old businesses, he shows that the typical (or median) entrepreneur’s sales are below the average (or mean) sales in 9 sectors. Shane writes that this distinction [...]
"Am I already a Winning Workplace?" This is one of the most common questions we get, and it really makes sense given the economy and, by extension, companies’ ability to invest in their workplace. They understandably don’t want to spend any more than is absolutely necessary here. One way to answer to this question is to benchmark [...]
Yesterday and today I’ve been doing some serious number crunching to find trends in the employee engagement research Winning Workplaces does through our annual Top Small Company Workplaces recognition project – in this case, for the 2010 applicant pool that finished applying last month. As a result, I can now tell you what a typical [...]
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