established a daycare facility. It all started when we were in a smaller building and employee had problems arriving on time because they had to take their children to daycare or school. Obviously we couldn’t do anything about the school factor, but we could do something about the daycare situation. We needed a larger workspace for our company anyway, so we found a building with an excellent floor that we could dedicate to a daycare facility. It’s actually very interesting how we fund the daycare. We take excess funds or monies at the end of each quarter and buy medium risk certificates of deposit on six-month terms. The last incentive which may very well be the best incentive according to the employees is the skill based pay. Not only do our employees make more with the skills they have but we will pay for half of each class that our employees take. We believe that if we assist them in bettering themselves they will stay with us and use these new skills to help our company. Several employees have gone on to finish their graduate degrees and a few employees continued up through the ranks and are now senior management here in the company. This is the main reason that we try very hard to keep our employees until they are senior management or leadership quality.Which is why our employees respect the leadership, because they know almost all of them came from the ground up in the company. Our employees will follow the leadership because they are not afraid of working. Most of our competition relies on outside hiring of their leadership but we try to promote from within strictly because of that reason. Another reason our employees stay with the company is that we exercise a little enjoyment in our company. One way is we let the employees take charge every once in a while, for example, we will have a drawing and one employee will win a day in the life of an executive. One other way we get results out of our employees is to...
