BenB
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| posted on 13/3/08 at 08:06 PM |
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I'm in the wrong job (Google's Zurich office)
Call this work? Work's supposed to be unrewarding, painful and make you feel like rubbish.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7290322.stm
Never more than 100m away from food. Big slides, relaxation rooms...
I knew I should have kept on being an ubergeek!!!!
What's next, do they give you a Locost to drive to work in every day (and their car park is a series of roundabouts with a super slippy surface
to get good power slides)....
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billynomates
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| posted on 13/3/08 at 11:08 PM |
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All he did was talk about having breaks, coffee, food, relaxing etc.
Wonder what he actually does for a job.
Personally, I was always happy enough with going for an Eartha with the Daily Mirror.
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carpmart
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| posted on 14/3/08 at 08:21 AM |
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I think that is a pretty nice environment to work in if you have to be in an office!
You only live once - make the most of it!
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Range Rover Sport - Wife's Car
Mercedes A class - Son's Car
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Jubal
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| posted on 14/3/08 at 09:05 AM |
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Eh? Where'd my post go?
Anyway, have seen similar right here in the UK on a pretty big scale (100s of workers). Those guys loved going to work but the productivity
wasn't there by comparison with their peers.
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 14/3/08 at 09:45 AM |
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More companies are looking at the costs associated with staff turnover (recruitment plus training etc) and trading off staff retention against
productivity. My present employer seems to have switched the opposite way round in the last 18 months during which we have lost a huge amount of
staff, a significant proportion with around 20 years service. I would suggest that this is largely down to lack of communication, direction and
respect rather than a lack of playthings though!
Anyway, Only another 5 days to go working there for me too!!
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 14/3/08 at 10:24 AM |
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read a paper the other day proposed that a 1% rise in people satisfraction can equate to as much as a 9% rise in customer satisfaction.
Now all these studies are subjective, and it very much depends on what you start out with.
when you start to consider that now more than ever there are vast amounts of company knowledge (or organisational memory) which is rarely stored
anywhere but in the brains of your people, retention and good working environments become more and more important.
I am not saying for one second that slides and beanbags should be the norm, but at least they are trying, and supporting their words with
actions/investment that enable their philosophy- and thats a lot more than the majority of companies who pay lip service to people satisfaction, even
those with IIP.
[Edited on 14/3/08 by Dangle_kt]
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