Can't get enough! Book lovers at work programs have big stars such as Authors@Google even though it seems the program has not had any recent guest.
What is more remarkable is that companies quietly doing their job day after day have found book programs to be a great way to broaden their staff views and knowledge.
In Book scheme set for overseas chapters (FT, March 2), Danuta Kean offers as an example Mick Neville who "backed by his employer and in his role as a union learning representative in a government-backed scheme at Fletchers Bakery in the northern English town of Sheffield,
Mr Neville turned the company’s redundant smoking room into a library
and learning center where colleagues could improve numeracy and
literacy skills."
At the same company, Barry Burton took the plunge and signed up for the Six Book Challenge which aim to make reading a daily habit.
The reading programs in the UK are part of the Skills for Life effort promoted by the National Literacy Trust…
As for the benefits for the companies, Danuta Kean quotes Dave Kaye, of First UK Bus:
“Four years ago, our staff turnover among drivers was 32 per cent. Now
it is 19.6 per cent,” Mr Kaye says, ascribing part of that to the
literacy and numeracy scheme. He also attributes a reduction in
collisions to better literacy among drivers."
What have you been reading lately?
Browsing the book isles for Monday Work Etiquette # 79
Previously: Shed no Tears: Garbage Pick Up and Etiquette at the Office