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 [...]
As we near the end of the application completion cycle for our 2011 Top Small Company Workplace award, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the following blogs focused on employee engagement and business process improvement for a more productive workplace culture. They responded to my Provigil pharmacy calls over the past few [...]
If your firm has considered entering our 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces award competition, one thought that may be holding you back is, "Well, if I’ve done one award application, I’ve done them all." Not so. We tend not to toot our own horn in an informercial-type way, but as our technology advisor for the [...]
Organizational development factors strongly in the content on staff engagement activities and other people practices that Winning Workplaces has published – just check out this page of search results on our website. As our mission is to help small and midsized businesses create better work environments, it likewise also looms large in our biggest annual [...]
As I have written about several times here, including in this post last May, undue employee stress costs companies, big time. A figure that is often cited is that the lost productivity as a result of it adds up to over $300 billion a year. Not the kind of backtracking we want to have happen [...]
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