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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Employee engagement is a force.

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Mix into the brewing storm, inefficient systems, inflexible bureaucracy, and lack of intercommunication; rumors fly, and you now have unengaged employees who become very expensive for any company. Remember, payroll is probably your largest expense; and the same way you invest in your plant and facilities you need to invest in your people.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Impact of poor customer service.

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Also, customers complained most items were more expensive than other competing stores. What Brookes is doing isn’t new, but he seems to be taking a more methodical approach and expects a five to ten percent growth for 2011 notwithstanding of course interest rates, unemployment, and the value of the Aussie dollar.