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Amnesia10
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 Four in ten workers would rather see a colleague made redundant than take a pay cut themselves, a new survey shows. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... ealed.html | | | | Quote: A total of 38 per cent of workers admitted that they would prefer for a colleague to lose their job than to have their own pay packet reduced.
The ruthless approach of a large proportion of employees highlights how money is the main motivating factor in the workplace for many people, according to Officebroker.com, the office space company that carried out the survey.
The survey also found that caffeine was shown to be more of a priority for office staff than saving the environment.
Despite most large companies launching green initiatives to increase the environmental awareness of their staff, almost six in ten of the 500 workers polled said they rather sacrifice green initiatives than lose the coffee machine at work.
When asked what sacrifice they would be prepared to make in the office if they were forced to make one, almost half of the workers said that they would be prepared to cut back on lunch breaks.
Giving up cigarette breaks came second, with 14 per cent of workers saying they would cut back on these. Just over one in ten workers said that they would sacrifice weekends off, while 8 per cent said they would give up a company car.
Chris Meredith, head of sales at Officebroker.com, said that despite the high number of people who would rather lose a colleague than lose salary, six out of ten people said they would be happy to take a drip in earnings to save a colleague’s position.
“Nearly two thirds of those polled said they would be willing to take a pay cut to keep somebody else in the job which shows just how important a good team ethic can be in the workplace,” said Mr Meredith. | | | | |
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jonbwfc
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Put me in the other six. Although I have the advantage that I can afford to be gregarious, as I earn enough that I get a small amount to spend on myself once all the bills & etc are paid.
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l3v1ck
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Put me in the other six too.
I would gladly have taken a pay cut in my last job rather than seen the layoffs we did.
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davrosG5
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I'm in the other 6 as well.
I would say however that employees quite often aren't actually given the choice one way or the other.
From personal experience I wouldn't want to see anyone made compulsorly redundant but equally but if people would like to take voluntary redundancy then that's fair enough. I was rather miffed that that option wasn't offered to those who were interested, everyone just had a fairly big pay cut.
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finlay666
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Does it count if the layoffs were due to incompetence? I'll be in the 38% if it does.... dead weight slowing the company down _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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JJW009
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Surely what's best for the company depends entirely on the situation.
Scenario 1: there is a drop in orders but it's expected to pick up again within a year
In that case, dropping salaries by going to a 4 day or 3 day week is possibly the best option. You keep the staff that are trained in the jobs, because you expect to need them again. Everyone has to pull together to tide the company over through the lean patch.
Scenario 2: the market has radically shifted and you simply don't need all the staff.
In that case, some staff are redundant. They need to be made redundant or the company might collapse. The alternative is that some staff work hard for less pay, while others sit around with nothing to do.
The coffee machine is never redundant; it always boosts productivity compared to staff making their own or going over the road all the time.
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l3v1ck
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Our layoffs were due to a lack of work within the industry, not incompetence.
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veato
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Depends on who's getting the boot. I work for a local authority and I'd gladly sack a lot of the useless gits myself.
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