With National Hug Your Boss Day fast approaching, we are turning around our survey questions rapidly to gather lots of interesting data to report. Do help us by casting your votes on the homepage of the website.
Last week, we asked how many bosses you report into. Surprisingly, we found that 12% report into 4 or more bosses.
However, more obviously, there were 54% of people who only report into the 1 boss, making it a little easier for them.
26% report into 2 bosses and 8%, 3.
Having many tiers a hierarchy is fairly common practice but the number of bosses you directly report to is different and can clearly vary from company to company.
So, all of you out there that report into more than the 1 boss, would you prefer to have just 1 boss to report to or do you find multiple reporting OK?! Do tell us here.....
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...
A huge thank you goes out to all those companies who got involved with supporting National Hug Your Boss Day. We had a tremendous amount of people getting involved. It really does show us how people really think healthy working relationships are so important!
We had pictures being shared all day from everywhere in the World with some very large companies sharing the love with us including, Skype, Haven, SAS, the CIPD, Haribo, Virgin Trains, Fox 24 News, Fox6 News, WICS Morning, Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream and Manchester City Football Club.
Such a fun day celebrating such a great cause for working individuals.
The website will be updated shortly and we will be announcing next years date in due course.
Until next year, make you sure you work on those relationships in the workplace and build and develop them in every way you can!
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.
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 :)
We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who got involved in National Hug Your Boss Day last Friday.
Photos will be uploaded to the website soon enough and the winner of the "BEST BOSS" competition will be announced this week.
Friday was a great success - we had thousands of pictures uploaded and sent in. We heard Kiss 100 FM having fun with National Hug Your Boss Day and we were interviewed on BBC World Service.
It really does show that a lot of bosses are liked, to the extent of employees enjoying a hug with them....
It is National Hug Your Boss Day next week - Friday 22nd August 2014.
Here we are calling you all to HUG YOUR BOSS and send your piccies in to us on our
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Hug-Your-Boss-Day/217675401587682 or email them to
hugyourboss@tiptopjob.com.
Come on and support healthy working relationships....
Our final survey relating to National Hug Your Boss Day is complete and results are out!
We asked our users if they thought that a hug could lead to an office romance. It was almost a 50/50 split in responses with only a fraction (53%) more thinking that YES, it could lead to romance.
Well, of course it could, but does that really mean the romance has come about because of the hug? No probably not. If you have an office fancy, then you have an office fancy. Maybe a HUG just makes you feel like you want to make something out of it.
On another note, if you are having an affair at work, do you avoid hugs in front of co-workers to dodge suspicion? Or are you not bothered about people talking?
Have you been involved in an office fling? Did or do you hug at work? Tell us more....