Fortune lists 5 examples of companies who really make an effort to keep their stars happy. Here's one example:
Capital One. Future of Work program offers company laptops, blackberrys, ipods, and open-plan work space where you could choose to plunk yourself down at a desk, in a booth, on a couch, or in a special "quiet zone" designed to eliminate distractions. Why iPods? They can and are used to download any of 10,000 different courses, many of them from Harvard and other top B-schools, as well as to tune in to internal company information like quarterly updates from the CFO. How cool is that? Pushing your content to your most important subscribers: your staff.
The other 4 corporate examples come from:
(Warning: I found the pages loaded VERY slow at these links. I found...if I clicked them once...then clicked them a 2nd time, the page loaded immediately. )
It seems so obvious: Happy employees = loyal employees. Right? So, why does it seem so many companies go so out of their way, so often, so consistently, so thoroughly to create disloyal employees? Curious.
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