Improving Work Environments Gifts

Cog-In-The-Wheel

On his desk, a cat has an in box, out box and litter box.

"I don't want a G.O.A.T, I want a S.C.A.P.E.G.O.A.T."

"Oh, yes, and there's plenty of opportunity for advancement."

"Why won't you teach us how to handle complaints?"

"I realize we had to liquidate some assets, but don't you think I'd be more productive if I had a desk?"

The trend toward less formal offices began to gain steam.

"This software will cut my workload in half, so I purchased two."

Trays on desk read, 'Here', 'There' and, 'Neither here nor there.'

"There are no big jobs, only small machines."

'So what do you think of my report, sir?'

'We feel it's very important to provide our employees with an extremely comfortable work-place environment. Primarily because we don't allow them to ever go home.'

Please bring me a few sharpened pencils and some lucrative business.

"We should have taken the cubicles."

'ACE Heating and cooling' 'What's Hot' 'What Not'

"He was orphaned at an early age and raised by two giant moths."

Fact: The average person spends 4.3 hours per week looking for things that are misplaced, misfiled or mislabeled.

HR - Helping Relationships

'Item 56, we need to schedule a series of meetings to discuss whether we should have meeting to look at whether we're having too many meetings.'

'Should be home soon. I'm just clearing away the usual paperwork.'

"I was just finishing up some spring cleaning."

"I tell you, it's a jungle out there!"

'This chart shows how much time we waste every day looking at charts.'

'Right about here I added a drip coffee maker, with high caffeine premium blend coffee, to the employee break room.'

"How are you enjoying the job?" "Oh, Ilove the job...it's the work that I hate."

New open space office design that promotes balance in the workplace.

'I think I found the bottleneck, Boss.'

The suggestion box.

"I'm a bit concerned the staff don't respect me, they've given me a nickname."

Unsuccessful board meeting.

"How do you feel about working a four-day week?"

Desk trays: The Good - The Bad - The Ugly

'In my day, we didn't concern ourselves with wimpy notions of workplace ergonomics.'

The worker/the man who monitors the worker/the man who wrote the draft policy guidelines on how to monitor the man monitoring the worker.

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