If Given a Choice
Would you want to read your company's Employee Handbook?

Now you can change that.... with Custom Employee Handbooks

How many of us respond well to just being told the rules, with no reasons or rationale? And in language that makes our eyes glaze over just to read it? Yet that is exactly how typical Company Employee Handbooks come across, especially to new staff.

Is the information important to know? In most cases its vital. If the content in the companys Employee Handbook doesnt get read, or as importantly, isnt fully absorbed or understood, companies cannot properly educate employees about their procedures and rules. As a result, the entire workplace suffers, including workplace harmony, teamwork and productivity. Worse yet is the time and effort it then takes to constantly explain procedures and rules, and the need for them, down the line.

Its been our strong experience, that in order for something (even rules and procedures) to be read, content needs to be reader friendly, ideally enjoyable to read. This is where we specialize, rewriting your companys employee handbook to your exact specification, adding:

1. Not just rules and procedures, but the good reasons behind them

2. Warmth and readability

3. Humor and interest through cartoons, so it grabs and keeps a readers attention, while making rules easier to understand and accept.

A Company Handbook sets the tone, especially for new employees. If you wouldnt want to read your Companys Employee Handbook, then why would a new employee want to? What kind of a first impression does your Employee Handbook give to new employees?

Does it say to them: Your company is warm and embracing, with room for creative ideas, contribution and individual expression? Does it say your workplace is a team environment where every person who works there counts?

Does it give good reasons why your companies rules and procedures are important, or does it merely demand they be followed and then state the consequences? Does it tell others in a way you would like to be told?

Shouldn't your Employee Handbook Do Just That?

With Our Help, it will!
A Typical section From an Employee Handbook - Before
APPEARANCE AND DRESS
To present a business-like, professional image to our customers and the public, all employees are required to wear appropriate clothing on the job. By necessity, the dress standards for the business office are somewhat different than for jobsites. For the business office, casual to business-style dress is appropriate. Employees should be neatly groomed and clothes should be clean and in good repair. Leisure clothes such as cut-offs or halter tops are not acceptable attire for the business office.

A Typical section From an Employee Handbook - After
APPEARANCE AND DRESS
To present a business-like, professional image to our customers and the public, all employees are required to wear appropriate clothing on the job.
By necessity, the dress standards for the business office are somewhat different than for jobsites.
For the business office, casual to business-style dress is appropriate. Employees should be neatly groomed and clothes should be clean and in good repair. Leisure clothes such as cut-offs or halter tops are not
acceptable attire for the business office.
What are some of the Advantages of Customized Employee Handbooks?
  • Your handbook will no longer be a chore for staff to read, but rather an enjoyable experience, making it far more likely that your handbook will be more thoroughly read.
  • When something is interesting to read, content is far more absorbed. As a result, your important rules and regulations will not only get read but will be more comprehended and understood.
  • It reflects well on your company as valuing individuality and creativity, and not just authoritative and demanding in your approach.
  • It gives new employees a sense of team and that your company is going to be a great place in which to work.
  • People are far more likely to follow rules and procedures when they actually read them, and when they are given not just the rules themselves, but good reasons as to why they are important.
  • Humor makes everything, even rules, more palatable, and easier for most people to then go along with.
  • It may be a plus to the legal position of your handbook. By making it interesting it is far more likely to actually be read, and takes away the argument in a dispute that nobody actually reads the rules and procedures because they are too hard to read or comprehend.
How Does this Service Work?
This is a customized service as no two company handbooks are completely alike. The first step is for us to get a sense of your current handbook and to the approach you wish to take in customizing it, such as adding humor with cartoons, or merely warming up the language and adding reasons or explanations to the rules. As a first step, we like to look at your existing handbook and then can provide recommendations and a no-obligation quote for customizing it.
What is the First Step?
For more information: Email info@firedupworkplace.com
Or Call: Thomas Smith 480-451-1765