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Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL.

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2005-02-12 10:46:14 - Graham Ellis

My Sister-in-law works for AOL at their headquarters in Virginia, near to Washington's Dulles airport. Lisa and I had an opportunity to go by on a recent visit to the area and see a most impressive series of buildings where AOL releases are put together (and I'm sure much else happens too) all clustered around a central headquarters. Nowhere in England would there be quite the same arrangement of car paking where the multistorey runs straight up to the automatic entrance doors, hallway, further doors, magnificent lifts and staircases to the work area. Some of the "Americanism" of it stems from the climate; it was between -15 and -20 degrees C when we were there, and any other parking or travel arrangmements would have been far less practical. But the rest of the layout and facilities shows a company that looks after its staff, and we saw a certain attitude of the staff looking after the company in return, and being proud of it.