Here's a story in the Boston Globe this morning that offers the dubious proposition that struggling companies that have had to jettison lots of workers are making it up to surviving employees by tossing barbecues and offering other cheap eats.
Allow me to summarize: "We've fired half of your co-workers, doubled your workload and cut your pay: Here, have a hot dog."
Now I like free food as much as the next guy, but let's not get carried away with the power of potato salad.
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"here, eat this. You'll feel better."
sounds like my 'lil Italian grandmother is advising companies now.
layoffs+hotdogs
Having been through a couple of these, I don't think they work all that well. The employees will eat the burgers and chips, but moral the next day is probably no better than moral the day before.
I like what our company did better. They canceled the company picnic and some other fluff benefits in order to retain staff. I think efforts like this will do more for moral than the layoffs+hotdogs method.
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