Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

Richard Branson is giving all his Virgin employees as many weeks of vacation as they feel they need as long as they keep being a valuable employee.

Netflix did it first.

This is a far cry from radio.

You may not be ready to let your employees choose as many weeks of vacation as they want – yet – but there are some things you can easily add to your bag of tricks.

And if you’re interested in being a great employer and, oh yes – rolling in dough like all the companies that offer great benefits to employees, here are the other tactics that very successful companies are using and just about no radio stations, record labels or TV companies subscribe to which means …

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1. Start with an easy one – the one thing that you can do today to make employees kill it for you that doesn’t cost a cent – not one red penny.
2. If there is one thing a company never, ever should do, it is this – it kills morale instantly.
3. Require this of every employee from now on – but you go first.
4. The one “perk” that companies cut first that employees appreciate the most.
5. A sure way around the biggest employee problem that gets in the way of productivity.
6. The new rules on firing when it is absolutely necessary that doesn’t scare the hell out of those who keep their jobs.

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