a special message for CEOs

Take your outrageous bullshit and shove it—your employees want more money:

It has become commonplace to say compensation is not the most important thing in determining whether an employee will be happy at work. A pleasant environment or an understanding boss, according to conventional wisdom, is more important.

It appears that conventional wisdom is wrong.

The Society for Human Resource Management’s 2007 Job Satisfaction Survey Report lists the top five contributors to job satisfaction as follows:

1. Compensation/pay

2. Benefits

3. Job security

4. Flexibility to balance work/life issues

5. The ability to communicate effectively with management.

The survey was reported in Family Business Agenda.

This message is especially for J.M., the CEO who was unfortunate enough to meet me (as not-Hepzeeba) face-to-face a few weeks ago, who will never read this blog, but who will certainly remember me.

All my love, and Happy New Year!