"With its developers earning on average $106,000 a year, Microsoft pays well, according to Fortune, but also dangles some healthy perks. The company provides 100 percent health care coverage, an on-site gym, and subsidized gym membership. Telecommuting and the option to compress your work week also are available. Job growth for this year is pegged at 2 percent."
This is a quote from CNET, a Business Tech website, that was talking about how Microsoft earned its spot as 51st best company to work for. 51 doesn't seem like a high number, but compared to every company out there, 51st is amazing. Microsoft uses their treatment of employees to motivate them and inspire them to enhance the company day after day.
Our textbook often talks about how autonomy is a way to motivate employees and telecommuting is a way to avoid this problem. Microsoft gives their employees this flexibility in order to get them to be as productive as possible during their work day. Organizational climate is another way to produce autonomy for employees, so by having such a great healthcare, gym, and work day options, they are creative a great organizational climate.
The book showed us Zappos, and how their culture is influenced by treating employees well. Zappos has treated their employees well, by providing health care and flexibility similar to Microsoft's and have increased their customer satisfaction greatly. The CEO, Tony Hsieh, believes caring is what motivates employees to do well, and I think Microsoft is putting this same idea into action.
-Team 4
Kelsey Van Gieson
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