Slashing Employee Perks? You'd Better Have Good Reasons

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  andrew@...07/31/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Slashing Employee Perks? You'd Better Have Good Reasons

  I agree with this article.
  Some years ago when I started in the valve business in
  Alberta, our company mimicked what the industry was
  giving all it's employees - every second Friday off. We
  were bought by a Big International Bemouth and they
  took the Friday away.
  Dissension and people walking out the door to other
  companies.
  We lost some good employees. Hey it helped me to get
  ahead faster.
  Now that I am in management I will never do what this
  Bemouth did to us.

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  oakye07/31/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Slashing Employee Perks? You'd Better Have Good Reasons

  One growing-but-not-yet-profitable startup that I was at had its free snack closet abruptly shut down. The explanation we got from the CEO, as to why we were doing it? Well, it wasn't so much an explanation as a warm, sympathetic statement to all employees: "The 7-11 is now closed." Implied message? Deal with it.