What are the benefits of having employee photos on a company intranet? Any articles on this?
Jan 30, 2007 by willcom | Posted in Financial Services
I wish to make a case to senior management in favour of having staff photos/profiles on our intranet and would in a perfect world like to point to a case study or research paper. We have many employees all over the world and project get members often comprise people who never get to see each other. From my experience working for a different company, knowing what your teammate looks like is generally speaking good for effective collaboration. Do you agree? Does your company have your photos on your intranet? Are you aware of any published studies in this courtyard?
I m for a very large American multinational.
A couple of years ago they put all their "organograms" , finalize with photos, on their intranet, however they did not bother to include photos of the guys who work OUTSIDE the office, the specialized or production workers if you will.
The rumour was that the production guys were all too ugly!
The only time we look at the pictures is, we look at the function girls to see what ones we would like to "hump" ( as if).
I agree that a picture speaks a thousand words, I query how many people have been passsed over for a job because in their photo they were ugly, or the wrong ethnicity.
I know of one guy whose parents were european but he was born in Kenya. So on his South African private limited company Cv it says "Kenya" as his place of birth. He was applying for overseas postings but getting nowehere. Then the pictures started appearing on the intranet and all at once he gets offered postings. Because he looks European.
Many of the office staff put a lot of effort into getting their intranet photo "valid right" becuase they know how important it is to have the right image. They will ask to "vet" the photo before it goes on the website.
What I'd say is, if you are prospering to do this then include EVERYBODY, from the top right down to the office cleaner. And allow them to vet their photos first.
Not Ecky Boy | Jan 31, 2007
We do not have photos on our website... and as norm of why not..
The local credit union has removed the pictures of the board of directors from the office They still have the names listed... but due to safe keeping concerns they were advised to take the pictures down.. Their explanation was... if someone wanted to rob the credit union they could recognize empathize with someone by their pic and use them as a hostage...
seemed far fetched to me..
Now the local bank is doing the same thing... also the hospital has removed the pic of the on of directors...
I guess it is just a precaution..
Maybe a solution for your idea:
Pics on a company website.. Let the employees login to a members only square footage.. the pics could be available there without causing any chance of threat to the employees... also give the employees an chance to opt our of the picture posting...
hotrodder39 | Jan 30, 2007
Former employer overpaid final benefits to retiring employee. Is retiree legally responsible for repayment?
Apr 24, 2007 by WonderingNTexas | Posted in Financial Services
After 29 years of business, I retired. My final paycheck included my salary, vacation, sick, comp time, protection, union dues and etc. With all the various benefits that I was being paid for & deducted, I had no idea that there was an overpayment, nor did my former employer until 1 month later. The gain is gone (paid off bills) and now they have discovered their error, but have not indicated what amount is in question but have said they paid for all the sado-masochistic time earned instead of a % of the sick time. Am I legally reponsible for repayment? Also, income taxes have been paid on the overpayment so how is that worked out if they are reimbursed?
they should have checks in put one's finger on to catch errors like these before paychecks go out. Their error cost them. The ethical thing for you to do is to repay the amount of the slip-up - but you did not know it was an error and now the money is gone. They may be able to go after you (depending on circumstances), but most likely will not if they determine proper fees will be more than what your overpayment was.
This happened with 3 employees at a previous job of mine. One employee paid the company back immediately, the other two had the money entranced from their paychecks over the next several weeks.
If you reimburse them, you'll adjust your income next year (& thus reduce your taxes paid next year). Don't torment about that part.
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