February 27, 2009
Guru has often been accused of making a song and dance about things in the workplace, but now one firm is literally doing just that.
Insurance group Admiral has hired two vocal coaches to provide regular vocal health sessions for call centre staff, under the guise of reducing stress and sickness absence.
The singers are developing a choir of more than 40 staff members and are running monthly two-hour singing sessions, with a view to a performance at the firm's staff meeting in Cardiff.
The choir's repertoire includes hits by Queen, The Blues Brothers and bizarrely, OutKast.
Guru can't wait to hear Hammer to Fall, preferably on the sound system during the concert.
Apparently, the vocal coaches have also had interest from "other high profile organisations" for their services.
Guru thinks that singing staff could be a novel way to deliver bad news to fellow employees or disgruntled shareholders. Perhaps RBS should have tried this earlier this week when announcing the largest loss in UK corporate history.
A staff choir, lead by group HR director Neil Roden, could have sung:
It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word.
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Comments (1)
Its good to find humor in a very shaky economy.Your article definitely has it.
Posted by Kim-free ads posting | March 1, 2009 4:48 PM
Posted on March 1, 2009 16:48