Soft SellThose ever-so-nice solicitors are eating up your workers' time.
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One of your employees is selling candy to help his kids raisemoney for a school project. Another is passing out brochures andtaking orders for a party to sell jewelry or food-storagecontainers. And then there's the salesperson who stops by witha supply of lunch items for your employees to purchase. It's nobig deal, right? Wrong.
"While workplace solicitation may seem harmless, it has thepotential to create labor problems, productivity problems andmorale problems for employers," says D. Allen Miller, managingdirector ofBusiness Advantage International, a human resourceservices firm in Farmington, Utah.
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