Hats off to Chris Cracknell, chief executive of the OCS Group who has launched a campaign to encourage staff to share their ideas and views with him direct. Called 'Speak to the Chief', the campaign is all part of the implementation of a group-wide Investors in People initiative.
The group really is making every effort to ensure staff are able to take up the offer. Correspondents can communicate with their chief exec via email or alternatively use printed forms with pre-paid envelopes.
'Overall we have very good internal lines of communication. The pressure of business, however, can sometimes give the impression that those at the top are remote and, no matter how hard we try, employees can feel they aren't always being listened to,' he said. 'So we are trying even harder'.
The crux of the scheme is the guarantee of an immediate response acknowledging receipt of every letter and an undertaking to reply in full within 10 days.
Diary is relieved to hear there'll be some help on hand from the other senior executives for Chris when the initiative gets underway. With 250 sites in the OCS Group, the total head count reaches 32,000. That's one hell of a big postbag.
What drugs are they on?
It seems that everyone is going mould mad. Some are even going as far as attempting to tame toxic mould to keep as a pet.
A small boy, part of a group of diverse creatures inhabiting a space station somewhere in our galaxy, tried to befriend a large blob of mould and keep it as a pet in a cartoon on BBC kids' TV programme Live & Kicking.
'Mouldy' (crazy name,crazy guy) has an insatiable appetite and steadily eats his way through any organic material around. His young owner is forced to make 'the right decision' and take Mouldy back to his family, which inhabits a planet of dumped, rotting matter, but not before the boy's mother tries to kill Mouldy with industrial strength bleach.
Clearly she hadn't read our report on toxic mould which explicitly states this is the wrong solution.
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The Facilities Business