Next Friday, September 14th, we will be celebrating National Hug Your Boss day!
We hope many of you will be getting involved again by capturing a photo or video of a BIG HUG with your boss and colleagues. Over the years, we are seeing more and more colleagues sending in their hugs with or without the boss involved - so if you are not keen on a hug with the boss, send over your pictures or videos amongst your work colleagues.
The thinking behind National Hug Your Boss Day many years ago, when it was set up, was to promote healthy working relationships with bosses and managers. Clearly, healthy working relationships are just as important between colleagues. With most of your working weekly hours being spent at work, it is important to make sure that you enjoy spending time with the people around you and each year we aim to promote this importance and help with building and developing these relationships.
If you are an employee having issues with your boss or manager, head over to our articles on the website for advice and tips on how to deal with specific situations. Likewise, employers, there are articles here for you too. Take the test to see if you need to improve your relationship with your boss and see MANY pictures and videos from over the years. Head over to the website by clicking here. We will be publishing new stats and facts over the next few weeks so keep your eyes peeled.....
Please do get involved this year. It is easy to help the promotion which is now a worldwide phenomenon. Share pictures or videos across social media using the hashtags #nationalhugyourbossday #hugyourboss #hugyourbossday. Or you can email them in to hugyourboss@tiptopjob.com.
We look forward to seeing them! Come on, get hugging and sharing!
Have you ever been "told off" by your boss and laughed out loud? Do you get upset? Embarrassed? Disappointed?
Our latest figures have found that almost one third of people actually take the comments given by their boss (when being "told off"!) on board. Not only does this reflect a sense of respect towards the boss, but it shows that the staff actually value the bosses opinion, even when they are getting into trouble.
A telling off from the boss only makes a very small number of employees upset luckily, a total of just 6%. We hope that this small percentage relate to those more emotional beings or those who takes things to heart. 12% felt disappointment, especially if the individual really respects their boss. 16% want to laugh aloud. 18% feel embarrassed by the telling off, especially if it is done publicly and in front of colleagues.
Finally, 21% actually take it on the chin - we wonder whether this proportion of employees get "told off" regularly and are used to either the bosses way or the fact they do deserve a slap on the wrists :)
We are pleased to announce that a number of new articles are now live on the National Hug Your Boss Day website. In our attempt to highlight relationship issues at work and resolve problems, we have written some advisory articles for you.
You will find articles for the managers/bosses and more for the employees.
Head over to the National Hug Your Boss Day website and click through to the "Motivational Articles" page. You will find articles on a multitude of topics, for example, "5 ways to manage your boss effectively", "How to deal with your employees office affair", "Clear signs that your boss is taking advantage of you", "10 things that really annoy your boss and solutions", "What behaviour is acceptable at work", "Sure signs you have a great boss" and more.
If you want to see something specific that we have not covered, please feel free to email us directly. We would love to hear from you.
We hope we can help many of you out there to deal with relationship issues at work and make them better to allow your working life to be more enjoyable :) Let us know if we have helped you deal with or overcome anything.
You usually hear about the boss shouting at their employees but have you ever thought about an employee who shouts at their boss?
Our latest survey results reveal that 79% have NEVER shouted at their boss, which is a promising figure showing most of our users do respect their boss or have never had the need to express any negative emotions towards their leader.
Although the majority sit in this bracket, we do still have 21% who HAVE shouted at their boss in anger at some point in their career. Although we have not dug down into why, we can assume that it may have happened for a number of reasons.
Did the boss do something to provoke the attack and did the boss deserve it? Maybe the boss has shouted first? But even so, should the employee then shout back? How could this make the employee then feel after the action? Do they resign and leave or apologise and pretend it never happened?
Whatever the reason behind shouting, it is not the best course of action, even if it is a reaction to a poorly behaved boss. Our advice is that if a boss has acted in this way to you, then remain calm and approach your boss with a professional attitude. Take some time before you speak to them to gather yourself and calm down if you need to. You do not want to make other employees uncomfortable and you certainly do not want to ruin your chances of a decent reference in the future.
National Hug Your Boss Day is fast approaching and due to be celebrated on Friday 9th September. Will you get involved this year? We hope so!
The philosophy behind National Hug Your Boss Day is to promote healthy working relationships with not only your boss but also your colleagues. We figure that if you are working alongside your boss and colleagues for on average 8 hours every week day, then you may as well enjoy spending that time with them.
We have been collating interesting facts and stats over the years and we will be releasing some more for 2016 before we celebrate on Friday 9th. Help us to build some interesting data by answering the survey questions on the homepage of TipTopJob which are currently changing regularly.
We also have a Facebook page and Twitter page that you can follow to keep abreast of information as well as a dedicated website with pages for Facts, In The Press, Articles, Quotes, Picture Gallery, Video Gallery and more.
New articles surrounding motivation and relationships will be live before Friday 9th to help with supporting, building and developing relationships at work. Keep your eyes peeled.
To celebrate this year, all we want you to do is give your boss or colleagues a BIG hug. Capture it as a picture or video and share it with us on social media using the hashtags #nationalhugyourbossday #nationalhugyourboss #hugyourboss. It could not be simpler and it will add to some fun at work :) Help us spread the word.
We have put together a video of the hugs that we tracked from National Hug Your Boss Day earlier this year. We hope you enjoy it!
Check it out on YouTube today...
37% say being a “Good Listener” is their boss’s best GOOD trait
The latest survey results released by National Hug Your Boss Day and TipTopJob.com reveal that 37% feel that their boss’s best GOOD trait is being a “Good Listener”. Don’t we all like it when we don’t get shut down in the first breath but get the chance to express our points and feelings?
The survey looked at a number of different GOOD and BAD traits over several weeks. Although being a good listener ranked the highest in the responses for those GOOD traits, 20% reported “taking responsibility” and 18% “communication” as being the best GOOD trait. On the flip side, the WORST trait was reported as being a “doubter” (there is nothing more destructive than being questioned, watched and not trusted!) with 24% selecting this option. However, 19% said their boss was “selfish”, 17% said they had a “bad temper” and 12% felt their boss was “secretive”.
National Hug Your Boss Day is being celebrated THIS Friday, the 4th September 2015 promoting healthy working relationships between colleagues, bosses and managers. They have launched a new website highlighting facts and stats, motivational articles, quotations, tests about relationships along with displays of hugs caught on camera and video over the years. Bosses, colleagues and anyone who would like to get involved can simply upload their HUGS to the Facebook page, Tweet them #hugyourboss #hugyourbossday or send an email.
Corinne Hutchinson, Marketing Manager at TipTopJob.com comments, “National Hug Your Boss Day is a light bit of fun to have when there is so much stress of everyday work and life. On a more serious note though, National Hug Your Boss Day and TipTopJob want to highlight the importance of good relationships at work and help everyone to get to a point where they are comfortable and happy with colleagues and managers/bosses. Do not forget to join in the fun this Friday 4th September by taking a picture of your hugs and sharing them with us. If you have any queries about the day, do not hesitate to get in touch at hugyourboss@tiptopjob.com.”
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For more information about National Hug Your Boss Day, please check out the website www.nationalhugyourbossday.com, find us on Facebook or Twitter or email hugyourboss@tiptopjob.com. National Hug Your Boss Day was created by TipTopJob, the International network of Generic and Specialist jobsites in 85 Countries and 61 Industries. For more information, please contact coz@tiptopjob.com.
In the latest survey results released by National Hug Your Boss Day in association with TipTopJob.com, 71% of European workers admit to swearing at their boss. This is in strike contrast to those surveyed in Asia where only 10% admitted to it.
The survey quizzed employees across 5 Continents around the world. 52% in America admitted to using bad language in front of their boss, 23% in Australia and 13% in Africa.
As well as surveying global employees, the UK was split into territories. Employees in London & The South of England were the most rude with 82% admitting to swearing at their boss! Those in the North were the second most bad-mannered employees with 62% selecting YES followed by 61% in Scotland. Only 30% in the East swore, 42% in Wales, 54% in the West and 55% in Ireland. Could this be related to the longer hours’ people in London work and the more stress they are put under do you think?
National Hug Your Boss Day was created in 2008 by TipTopJob.com to promote healthy working relationships. It is being celebrated this year on Friday 4th September and calls for colleagues and managers to simply catch a hug on camera and share it! Corinne Hutchinson comments, “With most of your waking hours spent at work with colleagues and managers, we feel that it is best to create a happy environment to encourage morale and motivation which in turn will increase productivity in the workplace. Do not forget to get involved on the 4th and help promote this worthy cause.”
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For more information about National Hug Your Boss Day, please check out the website www.nationalhugyourbossday.com, find us on Facebook or Twitter or email hugyourboss@tiptopjob.com. National Hug Your Boss Day was created by TipTopJob, the International network of Generic and Specialist jobsites in 85 Countries and 61 Industries. For more information, please contact coz@tiptopjob.com.
National Hug Your Boss Day has been confirmed to take place on Friday 4th September 2015.
The day is a fun opportunity to share workplace hugs demonstrating healthy relationships among work colleagues and managers.
The day has been celebrated since 2008 and each year more and more companies and individuals get involved.
The website can be found here: http://www.nationalhugyourbossday.co.uk/.
You will also find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Hug-Your-Boss-Day/217675401587682.
And on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HugYourBossDay. #hugyourboss #hugyourbossday.
Do not forget to take a picture of you hugging your manager or colleagues and share them with us. In the lead up to National Hug Your Boss Day, we will be asking a series of relationship questions on the TipTopJob website so please do vote to help us build a valuable picture.
Put the date in the diary. Friday 4th September 2015.
Happy hugging :)