PEO Blog in Misc/Random

New Book Illustrates Key Strategies Toward Building – and Sustaining – Internal and External Brand Advocacy

MINNEAPOLIS--Brandtender Marketing, LLC announced today the release of Brandtender Marketing®: True Customer Engagement from the Inside Out (Synergy, 2008).

The book details a seven-step process that its author, renowned customer-engagement expert Dan Day, says will serve to mobilize an organization’s existing employee base in such a way that every customer interaction they have – whether internal or external – will advocate on behalf of the company brand.

Experience, Inc. Research Finds Gen Y is Always Looking – Even When Happy

BOSTON--Experience, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of career services for college students and young alumni, today announced results of its 2008 Life After College Survey, in which 70% of recent graduates reported they left their first job within two years of their joining. 

Key people may leave when the economy improves, says MRINetwork®

PHILADELPHIA--Even employees who have survived downsizing and who have been assured that they are valued by their companies may be thinking about changing jobs as soon as the economy improves. Often management is unaware of the level of dissatisfaction among workers and fails to take steps to prevent significant turnover, according to MRINetwork®, one of the world’s largest search and recruitment organizations.

Something to Think about on Labor Day: Research Shows a Good Boss Can Help Make Weekdays Feel Like Weekends, but a Bad Boss May Lower Employees’ Well-Being

NASHVILLE, Tenn. & WASHINGTON--Research to be released Friday from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index reveals that the downward trend in overall well-being appears to be cushioned when workers experience a positive work environment, one where they get to use their strengths, and where their supervisor creates a trusting environment. 

Go way back… when you think about PEO’s “Professional Employer Organizations” you think back to the early days of employee leasing, staff leasing and all the other fun industry names that have evolved into the PEO Industry of today.

I find myself stumbling into fun stuff on the web all the time, but this is one I need to share.  Here’s the website http://www.archive.org/web/web.php, the organization is called Internet Archive, and it’s purpose it to build a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.