Small Talk: Time off in the summer motivates small-business staff
| July 22, 2007 |  View for printing |
Thousands of lucky employees at small businesses across the country won't be working this Friday afternoon, or maybe they will have the whole day off. Many small-business owners looking to keep staffers motivated this summer give workers what they really want: Time away from the office.
Owners do have other ways of motivating staffers in the summer, by catering breakfasts and lunches or sponsoring picnics, trips to museums and other social events. The point is to help make working during the summer more palatable, and, more important, to boost morale in a way that will result in increased productivity all year long.
Joyce Rosenberg
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