Polls & Quizzes
Poll Results: You Do Work From Home
Fri, Jul 7, 2011
by Drew McManus
It’s always nice to be pleasantly surprised and the soft poll from earlier this week asking office employee readers if their organization allows flextime produced some interesting results. Historically, I’ve always encountered a good deal of resistance from executives about the idea of allowing flextime but if the results are any indication, it seems that
Poll: Where Do You Work From?
Wed, Jul 7, 2011
by Drew McManus
I had a fascinating conversation with a colleague the other week who remarked at how much more work she’s able to do in a week since she left her full time marketing job for a career as a freelance marketing consultant. Having always been self employed, it was more of a preaching to the choir
Detroit Poll Results
Fri, Mar 3, 2011
by Drew McManus
Last Friday’s Detroit Symphony Orchestra oriented poll not only beat the previous all time high for most responses, it shattered it. The first question garnered just over 1000 responses while the second question produced a hair less than 1000. And with full poll logging measures in place to prevent a single respondent from flooding any
Detroit Poll Friday
Fri, Feb 2, 2011
by Drew McManus
It’s been an eventful week in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) labor dispute. In particular, the brouhaha surrounding the Detroit News coverage of the replacement musician scheme set culture blogs and social media platforms ablaze. Speculation about intent flourished and although we had a number of productive discussions here, I realized that I never actively
Friday Poll: Workplace Satisfaction
Fri, Sep 9, 2010
by Drew McManus
Last Wednesday’s article about workplace satisfaction generated an enormous amount of direct reader email. Clearly, this is an issue which those in the field feel strongly about but for whatever reason, there’s an equally strong trend to share those thoughts privately. But that doesn’t mean we can’t conduct some casual polls to get a better
