Most Unusual Requests or Suggestions to Hiring Managers

Assam News · November 11, 2009

Recently hiring managers in US took some time to bring levity to the workplace in a new CareerBuilder survey. More than 2,900 of them shared the most memorable requests or recommendations they have received in the office suggestion box. Well, what kind of suggestions do they actually receive? You won’t believe it, from requesting to put beer in vending machine to allowing bikini Fridays, employees requested all kinds of stuffs and facilities. Some even got requests for a tanning bed in the break room!

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Here are some weird requests or suggestions that hiring managers received:

    * Request to allow people to change clothes in their cubicles.
    * Request to add a tanning bed to the break room.
    * Request to put beer in the vending machine.
    * Request that jail time be covered under family medical leave.
    * Request to institute bikini Fridays.
    * Request to only be required to work during daylight hours because employee is scared of the dark.
    * Request for a special smoking area for medical marijuana.
    * Request that the HR person wear nicer shoes.
    * Request for more time off to pursue side business as a clown.
    * Request to replace his desk with a futon so employee could lay down and work.
    * Request that the lactation room with gliding chair be used for naps, so everyone can use it.
    * Request to install a swimming pool for employees to use.
    * Request to have the team meeting to be held in Hawaii.

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 2,924 U.S. Hiring Managers (employed full-time; not self-employed; non government); ages 18 over between August 20 and September 9, 2009 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions). With a pure probability sample of 2,924 one could say with a 95 percent probability that the overall results have a sampling error of +/- 1.81 percentage points. Sampling error for data from sub-samples is higher and varies.

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