BOOK REVIEW
Hire Like You Just Beat Cancer, Jim Roddy.
By Jim Roddy – In Hire Like You Just Beat Cancer, you’ll see short, easy-to-digest chapters filled with detailed examples and principles your business can adopt. You’ll read about time-tested best practices your organization can implement immediately. If you do, I’m certain your business will improve.
During the Great Recession of 2008, our employees understood the need to do more with less. To stay in business, we were forced to lay off several employees. And the ones who stayed took a hit financially. Operations employees went for more than two years without pay raises. Managers lost their overtime pay. With our revenue off nearly 33%, the take-home pay of most sales employees dropped by $10,000– $40,000. On top of that, for the first time in company history, we stopped our dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match. For 1 year, 11 months, and 9 days. (Yes, I was counting.) You’d think employees wouldn’t have been able to work with all the complaining going on around them. But that’s not what happened. more> http://tinyurl.com/8v93khh
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Oh! How I have to read this book… I loved what you said. In the past or “During the Great Recession of 2008, our employees understood the need to do more with less.” Today, it seems like they have downsized so much and over worked everyone. Thanks for posting this.
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