Who’s Got Dibs on a Happy Workplace?

DibsGot some bliss at your shop? You can win a freezer full of Dibs Ice Cream. Just tell your story about what makes your work environment a cool place to be. Sure, there all all kinds of Best Places to Work contests, but how many times do you get a chance to get ice cream that has to be delivered by the pallet-load to your workplace?

[Via The Chief Happiness Officer]

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How Many Birthday Wishes Do You Send Out Each Year?

Sarah on a Trampoline

Today is Sarah’s birthday. An important one. A round number. That’s her — a few years ago — doing a back flip. Wouldn’t it be great to have more days like this, jumping on a trampoline instead of walking a tightrope?

Happy birthday, Sarah.

P.S. How many birthday cards or wishes do you send out each year? How many birthdays do you keep track of? Do you know all your friends’ birthdays? Birthdays matter to people. How much would it cost for a company to send a birthday card to their employees with a real signature on it? Wouldn’t have to be everybody. Just start small. Ten people a year…less than one a month. A birthday card signed by the CEO. Wouldn’t that be cool?

Recruitment by Music Video

This is so much fun…

Folks at Connected Ventures made a funny video after work.

It shows their office space, their employees, and their culture - all in an extremely positive light.

Comments for the video not only show how well received the effort is, but also how many people wish they could work there.

There Are Better Ways to Make Career

I know, you thought I blew it on the headline. I didn’t. “There Are Better Ways to Make Career” is the flawed-English tagline of the most (obscene, creative, bold) recruitment fair poster I’ve ever seen. It’s by the German recruiting agency jobsintown.de.

WARNING: The image is very NSFW. If you’re easily offended, please don’t look. It’s why I didn’t provide a link up above or post the picture (even though it’s so tempting). The link is…well, it’s here. But please look at this in the company of no one. And if you do, I think you’ll get a laugh from the broken English.

How much nerve do you have with your recruiting? 50% of this? 10%. 1%?

[Via]

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For More Creativity, Raise the Roof

Ceiling

Want to your people to focus on the details? Bring down the roof. Want more creativity? Raise the roof. Those are the findings in paper titled The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing People Use that will be published in the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Behavior. One of the study’s authors says:

“When a person is in a space with a 10-foot ceiling, they will tend to think more freely, more abstractly,” said Meyers-Levy. “They might process more abstract connections between objects in a room, whereas a person in a room with an 8-foot ceiling will be more likely to focus on specifics.”

Pretty interesting idea. In our office we have 13-foot ceilings in part of the office and 9-foot ceilings in others. When I want to concentrate and write, like I’m doing right now, I go into the lower-roofed room. Hey, it works!

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