$1000 to Quit: Watch This Video with Bill Taylor
Don’t Quit on Employee Engagement
by David Zinger
Bill Taylor, writing the Game Changer blog at Harvard Business and the originator of the focus on the Zappos offer of $1000 to quit, has an excellent follow up blog post: Why We Went Zany for Zappos.
I recommend you watch this 9 minute video interview with Bill about the Zappos offer and the link between engaging customers and employees. For example, the offer has gone from $100 to $500 to $1000 as the company continues to grow.
By the way, Zappos engagement work certainly embraces much more than a juicy offer to quit…they give you plenty of reasons to stay!
If the video fail to load in the window, click here to watch it at the Harvard Business Blog Site.
David Zinger's 20/20 vision is to foster a 20% global increase in employee engagement by the year 2020. Join him in this quest to enhance engagement for the benefit of all as low levels of engagement are bad for employees, organizations, customers, and the economy.
Interesting approach and it seems to work for them — in the short term. I wonder what Zappos does to encourage their people to stay over the long term. More here: http://globoforce.blogspot.com/2008/06/pay-employees-to-quit-recognize-them-to.html