Comments on: Employees pay today, but employers’ll pay tomorrow http://www.ableandhow.com/blog/change/employees-pay-today-but-employers%e2%80%99ll-pay-tomorrow Communication, organisational communication, change management and people. And some other things... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:33:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Ferrabee http://www.ableandhow.com/blog/change/employees-pay-today-but-employers%e2%80%99ll-pay-tomorrow/comment-page-1#comment-3836 David Ferrabee Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:36:17 +0000 http://www.ableandhow.com/blog/?p=967#comment-3836 Kevin, You don't see Ross Perot quoted enough these days! Well done. I think we both made efforts to talk to people *before*, but that only allows us to say 'I told you so', which isn't that much fun... well, not for long anyway. I think this is new though. It's not something that businesses will have seen before. In the past companies have been happy to alienate lower-paid, high turn-over employees. This time they seem to have been indiscriminate. Many have put everyone off. Sometimes including partners, customers, employees... Interesting. /df Kevin,
You don’t see Ross Perot quoted enough these days! Well done.
I think we both made efforts to talk to people *before*, but that only allows us to say ‘I told you so’, which isn’t that much fun… well, not for long anyway.
I think this is new though. It’s not something that businesses will have seen before. In the past companies have been happy to alienate lower-paid, high turn-over employees. This time they seem to have been indiscriminate. Many have put everyone off. Sometimes including partners, customers, employees…
Interesting.
/df

]]> By: Kevin http://www.ableandhow.com/blog/change/employees-pay-today-but-employers%e2%80%99ll-pay-tomorrow/comment-page-1#comment-3835 Kevin Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:16:56 +0000 http://www.ableandhow.com/blog/?p=967#comment-3835 Yes indeed. To quote Ross Perot, there will be an enormous sucking noise when the recession ends and these companies realise all those they took advantage of and took for granted were quietly waiting by the exit for something better (not much of a stretch) to come along ... A couple of organisations have come to us asking about this, somewhat sheepishly it must be said ... "We, uh, sort of sacked hald our people by email and cut pay and perks, and now morale seems low. We're worried our best people, some of whom are still here, are gonna bolt when the job market softens." Wish they'd called us *before* they got themselves in this situation, eh? Yes indeed. To quote Ross Perot, there will be an enormous sucking noise when the recession ends and these companies realise all those they took advantage of and took for granted were quietly waiting by the exit for something better (not much of a stretch) to come along …

A couple of organisations have come to us asking about this, somewhat sheepishly it must be said … “We, uh, sort of sacked hald our people by email and cut pay and perks, and now morale seems low. We’re worried our best people, some of whom are still here, are gonna bolt when the job market softens.”

Wish they’d called us *before* they got themselves in this situation, eh?

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