It doesn't help that when employers say one thing,
employees hear another thing entirely.
Not exact matches
A core tenet of
employee engagement is that there are few
things more motivating to most workers than being
heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.
We
hear about
employees being let go all the time over
things posted to social media that violate a company's policy.
Lau spends 30 minutes every other day meeting with individual
employees so he can
hear first - hand any challenges or issues staff are facing, as well as the good
things they're doing.
In fact, most do but the last
thing a venture capitalist,
employee or customer wants to
hear from a founder is that failure is an acceptable option.
It's easy to get sidetracked thinking of the
things that need to be accomplished, but giving
employees your undivided attention during conversations and meetings ensures that you really
hear what they say.
Employment practices liability insurance, or EPLI as you may have
heard it called, provides protection to companies who have
employees against claims by current or former
employees for
things like discrimination, wrongful termination, or sexual harassment.
The best
thing about being a part of a global network of
employees is gaining exposure to a wide range of diverse people from different cultures and seeing and
hearing what
things are like in other places.
And when
employees at Big Star Sandwich, a local eatery,
heard about it, they did the only reasonable
thing: They offered Neeson a free sandwich by writing the offer on the restaurant's sidewalk sandwich board sign.
If an opportunistic worker tries to game or posture, open communication lines will eventually help you catch on to that — you'll notice that there are
things the
employee isn't telling you, or you may
hear from other
employees that something is amiss within the team.
I've
heard great
things from the makeup community, of course; I've had Sephora
employees tell me about the great list of natural ingredients they use, and I've read about the custom lipstick creation process at the Bite Beauty Lip Lab, so I'm finally excited to try them out for myself.
Sarah: Travel, meeting new people, exposure to new technologies and companies that most people have never
heard of before, and access to fellow
employees that are incredibly smart and teach me new
things every day.
«After
hearing our
employees» wants and needs from the surveys last year, we provided more upgraded equipment and more break rooms throughout the complex among other
things.
I have
heard that most
employees who work on prototype projects at Lab126 want to make cool tech, but CEO Jeff Bezos wants to sell
things at cost and turn them into gateways to buy more
things from Amazon.
Second Son bundle was announced for pre-order in November, Titanfall yesterday... also yesterday while at Gamestop picking up my copy of Thief at midnight, the
employee there said that they
heard about the bundle but wasn't able to pre-order them yet... not sure if this was a local issue or a gamestop wide
thing... on Amazon they are killing.
It is one
thing for me to tell students that shareholders can be activists or that managers care about their
employees; it is another for them to
hear from actors in real business situations in their own words.
Most importantly, companies subscribe to this model because it involves lower overheads — the business has fewer
employees and so is able to reduce the financial and administrative burden which accompanies
things like paid sickness absence, disciplinary and grievances
hearings, sick - pay, maternity, paternity and parental rights, and pension auto - enrolment.
Your interviewer wants to
hear many
things in a job interview, but most of all, a potential employer wants to know what to expect from you as an
employee.
And the perception seems to remain that requesting flexible working is not «the done
thing» — in a recent survey of 1,000 managers by the Institute of Leadership and Management, more than a fifth of those surveyed believed working flexibly would be «career limiting», while almost a third had
heard colleagues make derogatory comments about other
employees who worked flexibly.