In our recent survey asking “How would you rate your love for your boss?”
across the Globe, we found that it was The Americans who loved their boss the
most in comparison to any other Continent including Europe, Australia, Asia and
the Middle East.
71% of Americans said that they “loved him/her” in their response when only
33% responded in the same way across Europe. In Europe, 49% said they thought
“he/she is ok – they are just a boss” keeping it quite reserved.
Employees across Australasia were the most indifferent with everyone
returning the “he/she is ok – they are just a boss” option.
It was those across The Middle East that had the highest response to the
more bleak option of “Cannot stand him/her” with 27%. 44% responded to the
middle of the road answer so it was not all bad!
No one responded in quite such a grim way in Asia - 20% said they “Love
him/her”.
Overall, the survey was quite a positive one in terms of how employees feel
about their boss with 35% actually saying that they “Love him/her”. 46% were
middle of the road by selecting “he/she is ok – they are just a boss” which left
only 19% who really did not like their boss and selected the “Cannot stand
him/her” option.
With National Hug Your Boss Day fast approaching, how would you answer this
question? What is it that you love about your boss? Or on the other hand what is
it that you dislike? Let us know....
National Hug Your Boss Day will be upon us next month, Friday 22nd August
2014. Are you gearing up to give your boss a big hug?
With just over one month to go, we are still asking questions related to
relationships at work and will have some interesting statistics for you once the
results are collected. To help us with this data, make sure you answer our
survey question currently being asked on our websites.
We are currently asking “Does your boss....1. Motivate and spur you on? 2.
Cause your stress and headache? 3. Make you feel devalued and want to
quit?”
Our recent survey about motivations at work have found that 33% of people need to see their boss every single day to stay motivated at work. 8% felt that every other day would suffice which means that a massive 41% need to see their boss AT LEAST every other day in order to maintain motivational drive.
16% think a few times per week would keep them motivated, 20% say once per week, 2% say once per fortnight and 8% say once per month.
The survey also found that 13% did not need to see their boss at all which probably accounts for those self-motivated individuals who have bosses that work from home or in another office on the other side of the Globe.
With technology today, companies employees do not need to work daily from the same office but it is clear from this survey that we need to be careful about splitting up too many of the workforce as many individuals feel they need to work closely with their boss in order to stay motivated.
Let us know what you think?
Do you work in the same office as your boss and need to see them to stay motivated?
Or are you someone who likes to have your space and can drive yourself on?
It is official, National Hug Your Boss Day is confirmed for Friday, 22nd August 2014.
National Hug Your Boss Day was created in August 2008 by TipTopJob.com. It was created in order to promote the awareness of relationships between managers and employees and between colleagues. In a nutshell, we believe that if you are someone who gets on with your boss, then you will be more motivated and productive at work.
We want to promote good working relationships in the workplace as at the end of the day, you spend most of your waking life at work. If you are someone who gets on with your boss and colleagues then you are going to be far happier at work than those who do not. We want to offer advice to those who do not have these healthy relationships as we believe it is vital to a company’s success.
Over the years, we have conducted much research and asked hundreds of questions about hugging your boss, relationships with bosses/colleagues and more to come up with some interesting findings.
This year we want to raise the awareness of employee relations within companies who have staff who do not work in the same office whether it is being located in different offices across the Country or World and only communicate via email, intranet, MSN, Skype and telephone. We want to find out if this situation changes how you feel about your boss and if it fundamentally changes your drive and motivation.
Our website allows you to play a game to find out who your boss is, take a test to find out how good your relationship is with your boss, check out “hugging” pictures of companies who already support the day and read serious articles about motivation at work for both the employer and employee.
We celebrate on National Hug Your Boss Day by asking everyone to take pictures or videos of “hugging” your boss and uploading them to the Facebook page or emailing them in to
marketing@tiptopjob.com. To take part that is all we ask….
This year we are running a competition to find the BEST boss. Let us know why your boss so GREAT? We will be sending out a bottle of champagne to the BEST BOSS of 2014. We want to hear your reasons so get in touch with Corinne on
coz@tiptopjob.com and tell us why your boss should WIN!!!!!
More commonly people are finding that they are being hired only to start the job and find that their roles and responsibilities are different to what they expected. It usually ends up in the newly hired employee wanting to leave and start the job hunt all over again rather than face up to the issue. Being caught up in such a difficult situation is not easy even if it was an accident on the company’s part or a deliberate change.
So, if you are faced with such a crisis, what should you do? The worst thing is to walk out. Communication here is key, even if you are going to find it so hard to confront you manager or boss.
Find out more in our article on our
website.
62% of the reserved UK workforce say they wont be sending a co-worker a Valentines Day card on Friday.
Over the last 2 weeks, we surveyed around 500 people to ask them if they were going to send a Valentines Day card or present to a co-worker or boss. There always seems to be some “fancying” going on in the office so we wanted to know if people take it to the next step and show their love openly or secretly to that special person. This survey suggests most people don't!
38% however say that they would send a card or present which is still quite a healthy proportion of people. Watch out on Friday as you could be that special person!!!!!
A recent poll that we carried out of over 1,000 jobseekers asked where would they rather sit in an office. We wondered if there would be some sucking up to the boss un-covered here.....and.....
we were right! 28% would actually prefer to sit next to their manager in the office. Although this was not the top answer, it was the second most popular response.
35% would however prefer to sit in the middle of their co-workers, which is of course the most obvious answer.
Other responses include:
- Near the big bosses office - 14%
- Near the entrance - 12%
- At the back - 8%
- By the exit - 3%
Tell us where you sit and if you could change this, where would you prefer to sit???
Did anyone see "National Hug Your Boss Day" in the news on the 23rd August? Here at TipTopJob, we were all to happy to have a hug with our bosses and colleagues. We created the day back in 2008 to promote workplace relationships.
On a couple of the surveys we had run prior to the 2013 National Hug Your Boss Day we found that most people backed up our theory. 86% of respondents said that if they were happy with their boss that they are more productive. Second to this, top of the list of options to the question "What makes you more productive at work?" was "Good Working Relationships".
Another interesting survey result found that 55% of women would prefer to hug another woman. When asking men the same question, 62% would prefer to hug a woman.
Hug of the month went to Choice FM, whose photo you can see on the homepage of the website. CBS 42's Kate Muse and Kaitlin McCullet celebrated the day by hugging their news Director, Bill Payer.
You can check out more hugs sent in this year in the Gallery on the website:
And more interaction on our Facebook page:
We would love to hear of any more hugs we missed so do let us know if they are not currently shown and we hoped you all enjoyed the day this year. We look forward to celebrating again next year :)