Comments on: Google’s Employee Perks and the Yellow Pages http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/02/09/googles-employee-perks-and-the-yellow-pages/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: shawn wiora http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/02/09/googles-employee-perks-and-the-yellow-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-2918617 Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/02/09/googles-employee-perks-and-the-yellow-pages/#comment-2918617 Andy, Good point. Yes, all businesses should, and most do have an incentive program to stimulate more new ideas. We are merely suggesting that the YP publishers take note of industry leader google's approach for massive stock / monetary rewards for great ideas. Our suggestion for publishers is, "…they can certainly up the ante and provide more creative and substantial employee incentives than the standard “quality award” or 2.5 percent annual pay hike."

This suggestion, is based on our recently confirmed understanding that several publishers are, in fact, reducing there employee incentives / rewards in 2005. This can result in a downward spiral effect if not quickly changed. Each U.S. publisher has stock available to it, just like google. Who are the publishers saving it for?

Your thoughts?

]]> By: Andy http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/02/09/googles-employee-perks-and-the-yellow-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-2918616 Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/02/09/googles-employee-perks-and-the-yellow-pages/#comment-2918616 Are you saying that no Yellow Pages publishers offer any incentives to employees for suggestions that will improve their business?
Every business needs to encourage positive ideas…especially those that are out of the box.

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