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You Are Probably Not Listening To Your Employees Enough

0It's nothing personal; but, according to a new survey, the odds are that you could be doing a better job soliciting, digesting, and responding to employee feedback. Opinion Research Corp. has found that barely half of corporations carry out regular employee surveys at all, and that of those that do, another barely half actually take action based on the results.

Such surveys are extremely useful for gaining the perspective of the only other people with as intimate knowledge of your company as yourself, of course. However, they are also quite helpful simply to improve employee morale, the report said. Fully 84% of those employees at companies who did make changes in response to employee surveys felt that those changes personally affected them in a positive way.

Do you have any employee survey success stories? Leave them in the comments, or email them to bizboxonslate@gmail.com.

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