Celebrating your employees» achievements can be done in simple ways such like rewarding them for landing that sought -
after client with a half day at work or catering lunch for the department to celebrate an employee's 10 - year
anniversary with the company.
It surrounds itself with the pastel shields of diversity committees and health advisors, rebadges HR as «talent management» and hires workspace - design consultants and installs pink noise generators, but the truth seeps out here and there: sixteen weeks without a day off (including weekends); equity partners sacked on the first day of sabbatical; women logging on to the firm system the day
after giving birth to deal with an «urgent»
client matter; every deal commencement meeting in one Projects department fixed for Saturday morning, despite protestations from two mothers in the team; endless expensive holidays cancelled at the last minute,
anniversaries, birthdays and weddings missed, sacrificed on the altar of «
client service».