{"id":997,"date":"2007-06-12T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T21:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/salespeople-on-an-e-leash\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T21:14:18","slug":"salespeople-on-an-e-leash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/salespeople-on-an-e-leash\/","title":{"rendered":"Salespeople On An &quot;E-Leash&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 91\u00b0 here in the Twin Cities today so vacation is on the brain.&nbsp; CareerBuilder.com offers up some interesting survey results in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerbuilder.com\/jobposter\/small-business\/article.aspx?articleid=PRVACATION2007&amp;siteid=JP_Mail_NLControl&amp;sc_extcmp=JP_Mail_NLControl_VacationSurvey\" target=\"_blank\">Using or Losing Your Time Off?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>E-leashes and hectic schedules are cutting into vacation time as increasingly wired workers are finding it hard to leave the office at home. Although an improvement from 27 percent in 2006, <strong>20 percent of workers say they plan to stay in touch with the office during their vacation this year<\/strong>, according to CareerBuilder.com&#8217;s annual vacation survey, conducted by Harris Interactive of more than 6,800 workers. Nearly 15 percent of workers say they gave up at least one of their vacation days in 2006 because they didn&#8217;t have time to use it. Ten percent gave up four or more days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>First off, &#8220;e-leash&#8221; is excellent.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve never heard that term before but it is quite appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Second, we had a Chicago-based sales candidate take time away from her family vacation in Orlando to spend an hour on the phone with us.&nbsp; The Rock Star had to work through getting her schedule to align with our client&#8217;s schedule (a President) which was no small feat.&nbsp; The candidate did quite well on the phone interview and is moving through the process as I write.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the President thought the candidate should be available even though she was on vacation.&nbsp; His comment was &#8220;that is the way of sales these days.&#8221;&nbsp; I think he is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 91\u00b0 here in the Twin Cities today so vacation is on the brain.&nbsp; CareerBuilder.com offers up some interesting survey results in Using or Losing Your Time Off? E-leashes and hectic schedules are cutting into vacation time as increasingly wired workers are finding it hard to leave the office at home. Although an improvement from 27 percent in 2006, 20 percent of workers say they plan to stay in touch with the office during their vacation this year, according to CareerBuilder.com&#8217;s annual vacation survey, conducted by Harris Interactive of more than 6,800 workers. Nearly 15 percent of workers say they gave up at least one of their vacation days in&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/salespeople-on-an-e-leash\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring-salespeople","category-trends","category-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-g5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":980,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/summer-vacations\/","url_meta":{"origin":997,"position":0},"title":"Summer Vacations","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"June 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This week school will be out for our kids and I found this SHRM article (membership required) interesting and timely. The article discusses how we here in the US are opting to move our vacations from the 2 week long once a year vacations to more 3-4 day weekend stints.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trends","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/trends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":497,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/twin-cities-hiring-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":997,"position":1},"title":"Twin Cities&#8217; Hiring Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I never put much stock in these types of surveys, but the local Pioneer Press reports on the recent Manpower survey: Twin Cities employers expect to hire at a sluggish pace during the first quarter of 2007, a Manpower employment survey found. 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I have no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Team Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/team-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1799,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/11\/keep-the-perks\/","url_meta":{"origin":997,"position":3},"title":"Keep The Perks","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Herman Trend Alert has a surprising report on a survey looking at employee perks for 2008.\u00a0 The economy may be tanking, but employers are aware of the need to retain talent. In spite of the drastic effects of the economy on the labor market with announced workforce reductions up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":623,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/stats-on-gen-y-web-use\/","url_meta":{"origin":997,"position":4},"title":"Stats On Gen Y Web Use","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Inc.com's article Seven Out of 10 Employees Admit to Abusing Office Computers, Phones relays some stats from a recent Harris Interactive survey. Nearly 72 percent of workers ages 18 to 24 said they check personal e-mail accounts at work (compared to 61 percent of the general population), and 77 percent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Team Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/team-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1174,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/telecommuting-retention\/","url_meta":{"origin":997,"position":5},"title":"Telecommuting = Retention","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This isn't shocking news, but telecommuters are more satisfied with their work when compared to the traditional office worker.\u00a0 CareerJournal.com's Working From Home Fosters Job Satisfaction does provide some detail to this difference that I found noteworthy.\u00a0 First the background stats: Seventy-three percent of the remote and home-based workers surveyed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Retention&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Retention","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/retention\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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