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Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec

The Network survey : Does your company reward innovative ideas?

The Network Worldwide Poll in 21 countries: Only 16 per cent of companies reward employees with ideas for improvements

The Network Worldwide Poll in 21 countries: Only 16 per cent of companies reward employees with ideas for improvements

Suggestions for improvements do not pay off. 16 per cent of worldwide companies do not recompense their employees for bringing in innovative ideas, e.g. for optimising the workflow. This is the result of a current international survey of ìThe Networkî, the global leader in online Recruitment , in 21 countries with 25.647 participants. Another 21 percent say, they only get rewarded if they have outstanding ideas or ideas for specific areas. 63 per cent of the companies take innovative ideas of their employees for granted.

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ìEvery company sets a high value on responsible employees. Innovations are especially expected from specialists and executives, who usually have responsible jobs in their company. But nevertheless a specific incentive programme can help to integrate employees in a better way in significant processes. By the way: This is also a strong argument in times of the so called war for talents, in which companies trying to convince candidates to change jobs and start working for themî, says Pierre-Emmanuel Derriks, Manager of The Network.

Quite different to the international tendency, the situation is handled in Russian companies. 38 per cent of them reward innovative ideas from employees as a matter of principle. In the last position are Estonian companies, where only five per cent of employees are rewarded for bringing in innovative ideas.