Sentences with phrase «much time your employees»

«It's important that managers keep watch over how much time employees spend at the office.»

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Grant your employees time to pursue their individual passions, and they'll maintain their vision and passion for much longer.

Yet despite the trendiness and numerous health benefits of getting out of the office from time to time, most employees still spend way too much time planted in front of their computers.

They also need to train managers to deal effectively with employees who underperform and / or violate expectations (such as spending too much time on their phones).

These assumptions are wrong, and it's time we pay as much attention to the mental health of organizational leaders as we do their employees — if not more.

Priest put his company philosophy in place «as soon as I was hiring a full - time employee because I was hiring her from a much bigger company and her question was, «what do you stand for,» so she challenged me.»

After a week at Zappos, an employee has three weeks to quit and take $ 2,000 with additional compensation for however much time they worked after the first week.

Nor does it do much for employee morale: As Stanford organizational behaviour professor Robert Sutton wrote in his 2007 bestseller, The No Asshole Rule, brutish managers «infuriate, demean and damage their peers, superiors, underlings and, at times, clients and customers, too.»

I frequently speak about this when I lecture on college campuses, but even if you are not a full - time employee at a major company, internships will get you so much farther than any book you read or class you take.

But if you don't have at least four full - time employees, then you're not much of an employer to start with,» he says.

That price, as much as three times what some analysts expected, testifies to ING Direct's gradual if unspectacular success over 15 years, which saw it grow to 1.8 million customers and 1,100 employees.

Doing this right early on will save much more time down the road, in both better performance and happier employees.

Use a program that allows employees to see company time off policies, holidays and how much PTO they have available so they can remain informed to manage their time off more effectively.

According to a Payscale report, which calculated ratios based on the cash compensation of CEOs at the 100 highest - grossing public companies in the United States in 2013, CVS CEO Larry Merlo has the highest pay compared to his employees: $ 12,112,603 — 422 times as much as the average CVS employee, who earns $ 28,700 per year.

One of my employees commented, «With so much help pouring in, we had less time to drown in sorrow and disbelief.

«His business was being adversely affected, there was discontent among his employees — and this group actually takes a lot of time — and he basically said «I'm encountering too much in the way of headwinds and would you mind if I stepped down.»»

We've been talking about our open - ended PTO policy for a while, and whenever we do, the same questions arise: Don't employees take advantage of the company by taking too much time off, damaging business results?

Next lowest is HP's Meg Whitman, whose cash compensation of $ 535,335 in 2013 was just six times as much as the average HP employee's — $ 84,500, followed by Warren Buffett, who earned $ 485,606 in cash in 2013 — nine times more than the pay for Berkshire Hathaway employees, who make, on average, $ 56,900.

It sounds too good to be true, but companies are starting to let employees take as much time off as they want... and it's all paid.

They are (mostly, preferably) outsiders — they are outsiders on purpose — and so by definition they spend much less time in direct contact with the organization than, say, the CEO or other employees.

Far better, Friedman argues, to emulate forward - thinking companies like LinkedIn, Netflix and Calgary's BluEra, which offer unlimited vacation policies to emphasize that it's OK to take as much — or as little — time off, as long as employees get their jobs done.

Customers can sense when employees are having fun and enjoying their jobs — and this attitude is contagious, which hopefully causes customers to spend much more time shopping.

Unlimited vacation policies are — at least in theory — extremely popular and a very hot topic among employers and employees... but how does a small business actually go about implementing a policy where employees can take as much time off as they like?

Before you spend too much time worrying about a severance agreement in your own future, be aware that cooperation clauses for mid-level employees are rare.

Overloading your staff by setting the bar too high or assigning too much work within a short time frame can undermine your efforts to gain the respect of your staff and could cause your employees to shut down or even quit.

It's a shame if a business invests time and money in having their team hear a message, only to find out that employees don't remember much of what was said and therefore can't implement or execute what they've learned.

When it's time to scale the other direction, it's much easier to stop handing out freelancer contracts than it is to lay off full - time employees.

You will need to spend much less time supervising a known employee or contractor, or interacting with a long - term investor, then you would when you're working with someone new.

Not only are half the employees I work with in full - time education like me... but the other half were all upstanding, good individuals (in their own ways) who I respected as much as they respected me.»

After all, why waste so much time on planes if you can place a 3 - D version of yourself right in the offices of your prospects or your regional employees at a moment's notice?

And from Connelly's standpoint, she adds, the contribution structure rewards long - time employees in a way that's much more tangible than bragging rights.

We had so much work to do on Mr. Skin.com that the thought of another site was overwhelming... but at the same time I realized we have the best group of employees we've ever had, and we realized we had an opportunity: Who has better infrastructure, better knowledge, better everything than we do?

She kicked off the New Year by scrapping her company's vacation policy; now employees just take as much time as they need.

As long as the job is getting done and the employee isn't spending too much time doing personal stuff on company time, a hands - off approach is best.

Bad news — to employees, when layoffs might be imminent or cuts need to be made, or to teammates, when work won't be completed on time or commitments won't be met, or customers, when deliveries will be late or high expectations may not be met — is much tougher to deliver.

Employees rave about a culture where karaoke matters as much as contracts, and where lawyers take time off to accompany underprivileged kids to Disney.

While that sounds obvious, managers are usually puzzled when they find out that, despite spending so much time in the same place, employees don't immediately bond with one another.

It's amazing to see how much personal time people invest to forward causes they care about — and how effective they are at mobilizing other employees.

I don't know about you, but in this tough economy when workers nationwide are doing so much extra work without additional compensation, my company can't afford to replace talented employees simply because my managers and I aren't taking the time to acknowledge our employees» dedication and achievements.

Klick uses Genome to collect and visualize data on how much time each individual employee is spending on every project, so managers know who's working too much or too little.

Having worked in the past for entrepreneurs whose micromanaging wasted «so much time,» Faught says he stresses to employees that if something goes wrong, there won't be any pointing of fingers.

The story spans four decades, and is based on primary sources including internal company files dating back to the late 1970s, interviews with former company employees, and other evidence, much of which is being published here for the first time.

Capital One Financial (cof) estimates the cost of a bad hire can be as much as three times that employee's salary.

«Employees should pretty much get whatever will help them be more productive, since their energy and time are invaluable, and small expenditures can go a big way in making people happier and more effective,» Rosenstein said.

It seems an obvious point, but the spirit of 20 percent time is to allow as much free rein to your employees as possible.

It's something I've already been planning for a while, but actually getting the money together to kick things off is quite difficult while I'm the only employee and the work itself requires much of my time.

«You might be surprised how much better employees perform in less time.»

Vesting periods are typically three to five years, which does not provide much time for the employee to make decisions about their options.

The bonus for employees is that it allows them to see how much time they spend on a task — and for employers, it shows them how much or how little an employee is working.

During my own experience as a remote employee, I have also learned a lot about how important it is to take on only as much work as I can do at a given time and this has helped me better assess my own time management skills and to develop a healthier and less stressful routine.