A Gold Solution to Promoting a Productive Workforce

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Rule One in Employee Productivity in the Workplace

Holidays. Grant your employees long holiday periods. Such periods of time will refresh the mind and negate all the built up negativity in the workplace. Negativity will diminish greatly as the employee will not be in the office to affect others.

The negativity will be sitting in front of the ocean in Bali.

The employee is happy. Colleagues are happy. The Manager is happy. Win-win situation.

Rule Two in Promoting a Healthy Workplace

Holidays. Grant your employees long holiday periods. Extended periods of time away in a sunny tropical country will bring about the healthiest of tans. The employee will return to work glowing from head to toe in a healthy all-over tan. Everyone in the industry knows that tans-equal-happiness. The effect of many tanned-bodies will promote the look and feel of a Healthy Workforce.

Rule Three in Increasing Employee Participation

Holidays. Send an email out about who wants to take on the next project with Mr-Crazy-Manager-Upstairs and I'll guarantee you will recieve no responses and maybe a few sick certificates. However, send an email out to your team about organising Holiday Leave? You will recieve replies in abundance. You, as a Manager, will be wearing the popularity hat for this period of blissful time. Employee Participation will be increased dramatically.

If you haven't already noticed... the common denominator in all these rules is Holidays. Holidays Holidays Holidays. I have Holidays on the brain right now. It's so alluring because I'm forbidden to take any holidays this year as my position does not allow for absence during the Christmas time. The more it becomes forbidden, the more it makes me want it. I want to be away from Australia and walking along the streets of a country that I have never been.

Excuse me for a bit... I am going to google some pictures of Paris to make myself feel better.