Welcome to the ManpowerGroup Employment Blawg » Question of the Week http://manpowerblogs.com/toth Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:49:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Social Media @ Work http://manpowerblogs.com/toth/2012/01/17/social-media-work/ http://manpowerblogs.com/toth/2012/01/17/social-media-work/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:21:47 +0000 admin http://manpowerblogs.com/toth/?p=8654

To help us prepare for our January 26 webinar, we wanted to find out more about how you really use SM in your workplace.

In last week’s poll we asked:

How much time do you spend using social media each week @ work?

Here are the official results:

  • 0 minutes: 32%
  • 1-30 minutes: 35%
  • 31-60 minutes: 14%
  • 1-2 hours: 9%
  • 3-5 hours: 5%
  • 6-10 hours: 4%
  • 10+ hours: 1%

The results were rather surprising (at least to me):

  • One-third of you spend a grand total of zero minutes each week using SM @ work.
  • The most popular answer was 1-30 minutes, capturing another third or so.
  • Less than one-fifth spend more than an hour a week on SM.
  • Approximately one-tenth spend 3 or more hours on SM, with 1% spending more than 10 hours. Yikes.

We’ll dive more deeply into these results (plus lots of other SM trends) and what they mean in our upcoming webinar. As always, thanks for your participation!

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To help reduce potential fistfights, riots and other forms of workplace violence, over the past week we’ve been conducting our annual poll in which we seek a peaceful resolution to a controversial question that inevitably pops up this time of year.

We asked: What is the absolute #1 best holiday movie of all time?

And the winner is…

It’s a Wonderful Life, with 21% of the votes.

The first runner-up was National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (14%), followed by A Christmas Story (12%).

Finishing dead last with approximately 0.0001% of the votes was Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. (One person out there actually picked that as their favorite. Clearly, someone has been hitting the eggnog a little too hard already.)

Here are the complete results:

  1. It’s a Wonderful Life (21%)
  2. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (14%)
  3. A Christmas Story (12%)
  4. A Charlie Brown Christmas (11%)
  5. A Christmas Carol (9%)
  6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (7%)
  7. Miracle on 34th Street (6%)
  8. Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer; White Christmas (5%)
  9. Elf (4%)
  10. Frosty the Snowman (2%)
  11. The Santa Clause; Nestor the Long-eared Donkey (1%)
  12. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (0.0001%)

HAVE A JOYFUL AND PEACEFUL HOLIDAY SEASON!

]]> http://manpowerblogs.com/toth/2011/12/19/and-the-winner-is-6/feed/ 4 Answer to Question of the Week http://manpowerblogs.com/toth/2011/11/28/answer-to-question-of-the-week-44/ http://manpowerblogs.com/toth/2011/11/28/answer-to-question-of-the-week-44/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:26:13 +0000 admin http://manpowerblogs.com/toth/?p=8364 Our most recent Question of the Week — based on the very latest hot-off-the-presses research — asked:

What % of employers predict that litigation will either rise or stay the same in 2012?

We gave you 5 choices:

  1. 112%
  2. 92%
  3. 72%
  4. 52%
  5. 32%
  6. 12%

The votes are in. Your most popular choice was 72% (with 40% of the votes). Next was 92% (27% of the votes), followed by 52% (16% of the votes), 32% (8% of the votes) and then 12% (6% of the votes). A rather surprising 4% of you chose 112% which … um … is mathematically impossible.

The correct answer? You were close. A whopping 92% of employers say they expect litigation to either increase or stay the same in 2012. That’s more than ten times the 8% that expect litigation to decrease.

This data is from the brand-new and always-fascinating (at least to me) Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report, available for free from the fine folks at Fulbright & Jaworski here.

We’ll discuss some of the report’s other highlights tomorrow. Stay tuned.

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The following is a little test of your knowledge of the “Wage & Hour Big 10.” If you master these, you’ll be well on your way toward a future free of FLSA foibles.

Which of the following must employers pay?

  1. On-call time
  2. Commute time
  3. Wait time
  4. Changing into and out of uniform if required at work
  5. Donning and doffing safety gear
  6. Walking between changing and production areas
  7. Rest periods of 30 minutes or less
  8. Bona fide meal periods of 30 minutes or more
  9. Travel during the course of the work day
  10. Travel outside work hours

Tune in tomorrow for the answers.

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