A baking company offers employees English lessons and sees an increase in efficiency. An apparel company gives hourly workers incentive -- the more clothes they produce, the more they get paid. Guess what, productivity picked up. Offering employees a little something extra, particularly workers further down on the ladder, can go a long way.
You can read the full article here. It is a simple concept and we've addressed the issue before. Incorporating incentives or regular, creative ways of encouraging and rewarding employees into your business plan or business strategy is necessary to breed goodwill and keep people producing efficiently.
You can do this in a variety of ways:
- build a bonus structure
- adjust your time off policies, perhaps summer hours or one Monday a month off
- plan company bonding events, nice dinners, cocktail hours, bowling (you would be surprised how far efforts like this go)
- institute an employee of the month program, recognize the winner publicly and provide a small gift
- free gym memberships
There are many more ideas but some type of program to keep your employees happy and healthy may extend the life of your business.
You can read the full article here. It is a simple concept and we've addressed the issue before. Incorporating incentives or regular, creative ways of encouraging and rewarding employees into your business plan or business strategy is necessary to breed goodwill and keep people producing efficiently.
You can do this in a variety of ways:
- build a bonus structure
- adjust your time off policies, perhaps summer hours or one Monday a month off
- plan company bonding events, nice dinners, cocktail hours, bowling (you would be surprised how far efforts like this go)
- institute an employee of the month program, recognize the winner publicly and provide a small gift
- free gym memberships
There are many more ideas but some type of program to keep your employees happy and healthy may extend the life of your business.
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