Last week, Jeff Weiner gave every one of his employees at LinkedIn an iPad Mini.
Yes, every one of LinkedIn's 3500 employees received one for a job well done. While I'm sure the employees would've preferred a pay raise or a big fat bonus, this little gesture no doubt created quite a morale boost among the workers.
This is what a good company looks like.
On the other hand, at my company, one—one—iPad Mini was given out today to a single employee—out of the 49 who bothered to play and had correct responses to a stupid scavenger hunt on our intranet website. But I guess the morale boost that the $87K for 250 iPads would generate here isn't nearly as important as…oh, I dunno…a guaranteed bonus for anyone with a corner office?
Priorities, after all.