Collins returned to the office this week. My buddy got a armark $5 gift card and candy from his director. Oh and their quarterly employee satisfaction survey dropped 22 points. I have heard of similar drops in other parts of the company as well.
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Maybe they'll move to the Principal model of just getting rid of the employee opinion survey.
The company I work at just takes 9 months to tabulate the results and only shares a select few things. By the time we get the results I have long forgotten my responses or the questions
my company does quarterly surveys and those in my role reported the lowest satisfaction in Q2.
so they set up roundtables with all in my position to discuss our frustrations and challenges and would present to leadership and would circle back
well here we are 4 days into now Q4 and still awaiting the aforementioned circle back
want to know how to get even lower scores? say you'll do something to fix and then do nothing.
Zero to low borrowing rates for a decade plus created A LOT of zombie companies with employees doing 10 hours of work in a 40-hour week... The current lending environment will cause fat trimming if we stay higher for longer..
I see the current union excitement as a lot of people trying to get theirs before the gravy train runs dry.
I see the current union excitement as a lot of people trying to get theirs before the gravy train runs dry.
Surprises me there are still companies out there that are doing this as seems like a HR lawsuit waiting to happen. Seems like a small price to pay for another hotel room to avoid the risk of a harassment lawsuit. I can bet you they blow a lot more money than that hotel room costs on other dumb things that they could save some expenses on.
I think if I were ever in that spot I'd tell my company either give me my own room or send someone else in my place and start looking for another job where I didn't have to put up with that BS if regular travel was part of the job requirements. I did a summer internship in college that we traveled 4-5 days a week that had the same travel policy where if you were the same gender you had to share a hotel room. Didn't find it as big of a deal back then as I got along with most of the interns but today I definitely have a different view as an adult if I had to deal with that. I've had coworkers that have hygiene or lifestyle issues that I really would not want to share a room with under any circumstance while there are others I would be fine with but it's really an all or nothing thing with a policy that like.
There was an opportunity to make a few extra dollars, put a pole in the conference room. I will admit that those poles are very spinny.
In my experience just about every company conference or meeting that involves sales people eventually ends up at a strip club. Sales people are a different breed.
Nationwide also did away with their surveys.
My company has not yet, despite low-ish scores the past few years.
There's research to back this up. It's literally better to make no effort to listen to employees at all than to solicit their feedback and take no action.
If you don't test then you can't have any negative results.
Management 400 level. Advanced ****
With five kids now working, every time they come home they bring some junk they got at work home thinking I might want it. I have a storage box full of the stuff. They apparently inherited what I got from parents raised in the Depression and just won’t throw away a useful item.
I have pens, water bottles, frisbees, stuffed animals, golf balls, fanny packs, journals, etc. Since we put food into the blessing boxes weekly, I have been putting in some of the junk. It goes a lot more slowly than the food.
Yes to all. It certainly created HR issues they had to deal with. Plus we were a construction company so guys would bust their butt all day in the field and then have to share a room with a guy you just worked with for 12 hours. I'm sure it cost us some in terms of hiring, as well.
When they re-rolled out the policy, I verified with my supervisor that it was in fact required. They said yes. I told them I wasn't going to do it. I said if they tried to force me into it, I'd go find a therapist to give me a letter saying I had anxiety issues with sharing a room (which is not far from the truth). I usually traveled alone so it was a bit of a moot point for me but there were definitely times I would have had to do it. I quit about 5 months after they rolled it out and never had to actually do it.
This was a $200M+ company with 500+ employees. They claimed it was "critical to the culture" when it was obviously "we are trying to cut costs." Total BS. I also had the opinion that "I've been a professional, working in the engineering field for 15 years. I'm way too told to do this kind of crap."
I'm pretty sure the only reason pensions still exist at private sector companies is unions.
I would immediately throw this stuff in the trash.
Admin comes around and hands me some garbage. I threw it in the garbage before she could turn around.
Nope.
When Corteva stock opened on Wall Street, they gave every employee a cast iron bell. They might have spent a million on them, no idea but it was not cheap. Mine went straight in the metal recycling later that day.
For reference, my question wasnt about making false statements.
I too, am a PFG employee, and have heard of mass exceptions being provided, based on an employees role within the company.