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Retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) uses a range of methods to motivate its employees without spending too much of its benefits budget.
With 75,000 employees across more than 800 UK stores, M&S uses traditional cost-cutting methods and technology to engage staff. For example, its internal social media network Yammer helps bring workers together, as well as congratulate them for hard work.
Throughout February 2015, 15,000 M&S staff were in conversation across the Yammer network, which was 15.7% more than in the previous month, despite there being no specific drive to increase this in February. This...