Corporate culture, WOW companies and laying off people
Для справки: Zappos.com продаёт через интернет 50% overpriced джинсы и другую одежду с доставкой на следующий день.
The Zappos HR team uses offbeat, cartoony applications and wacky interview questions (How weird are you? What's your theme song? What two people would you most like to invite to dinner?) to screen for creativity and individuality while filtering out egomaniacs and wallflowers.
All new hires complete four weeks of training, including two weeks on the phones, beginning every day at 7 a.m. They can't be late or call in sick. Anyone too good to work the phones during a holiday rush isn't Zappos material. New recruits are even offered a $2,000 bribe to leave the company during training, one final effort to weed out the half-hearted (only three people accepted last year). The net effect is a culture of extroversion and nose rings - hold the cynicism.
When eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) (No. 83) cut almost 1,000 people as part of a global reorganization, most U.S. employees were allowed to stay on for four weeks to take care of personal needs and say goodbye to colleagues, and received at least five months of severance and four months of paid COBRA, and one to three months of outplacement services. "How you treat the leavers has a strong impact on how the stayers feel about the company," says Beth Axelrod, eBay's SVP of human resources.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/news/companies/Zappos_best_companies_obrien.fortune/index2.htm
The Zappos HR team uses offbeat, cartoony applications and wacky interview questions (How weird are you? What's your theme song? What two people would you most like to invite to dinner?) to screen for creativity and individuality while filtering out egomaniacs and wallflowers.
All new hires complete four weeks of training, including two weeks on the phones, beginning every day at 7 a.m. They can't be late or call in sick. Anyone too good to work the phones during a holiday rush isn't Zappos material. New recruits are even offered a $2,000 bribe to leave the company during training, one final effort to weed out the half-hearted (only three people accepted last year). The net effect is a culture of extroversion and nose rings - hold the cynicism.
When eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) (No. 83) cut almost 1,000 people as part of a global reorganization, most U.S. employees were allowed to stay on for four weeks to take care of personal needs and say goodbye to colleagues, and received at least five months of severance and four months of paid COBRA, and one to three months of outplacement services. "How you treat the leavers has a strong impact on how the stayers feel about the company," says Beth Axelrod, eBay's SVP of human resources.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/news/companies/Zappos_best_companies_obrien.fortune/index2.htm