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Quick Takes: September 18, 2007
  

Workers Vow to Go Extra Mile for Year-End Results


Employees say they would to give up personal time to help their companies meet 2007 performance benchmarks.
By Garry Kranz

Exceptional Employee Productivity: Employees at some companies appear willing to make sacrifices of their personal time by assuming increased workloads  if that’s what it takes to make their companies successful. A study released by office supply retailer Office Depot finds that nearly half (48 percent) will “attempt to further increase their efficiency … to deliver year-end business results” for 2007, even if it means cutting into their outside interests.

Although somewhat encouraging, the figures nonetheless suggest that most managers remain uncertain about how to stoke the fires of employee motivation. Of the approximately 2,500 managers surveyed, only 34 percent said they want to “create an environment [in which] people want to work and where they see a future.”


Workforce Management contributing editor Garry Kranz is based in Richmond, Virginia. E-mail editors@workforce.com to comment.


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