“Encouragement grows ownership of the common success”

Petr Sivov, General Director of Gzhel Art Workshops LLC:

— I think, like last year, we will be able to support employees financially, but to what extent, it will become clear in the second half of December. In the outgoing year, we have good results, the market is quite wide, and in the current conditions, when the logistics of receiving similar goods from China is difficult, we, and many other domestic manufacturers, have certain advantages. And consequently, incomes at least have not fallen, and there is a resource to reward employees.

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Ekaterina Bereziy, founder and development director of ExoAtlet (Skolkovo resident):

— At the current stage of development of the market and the project, we do not have a tradition of issuing New Year’s financial bonuses to employees. They receive a salary, and until the project becomes profitable, the business plan agreed upon by our investors does not provide for bonuses.

The production of medical exoskeletons is a long-term startup that develops complex technologies and is only forming its market. The team has been working for about ten years, we have experienced at least two “death valleys”. And the main motivation is not bonuses at the end of the year, but to pull the project to a level where the opportunity to fully recover becomes available throughout the country. What can be stronger than motivation than when you see how children or adults immobilized by illness begin to walk?

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Irina Zharova-Wright, Managing Partner of Sesegar Investment Group:

– The year was difficult, ambiguous, but the team worked perfectly, so there will be cash gifts. And to consider it a bonus, a bonus, or just an assessment of the contribution of everyone to the common cause – it’s more pleasant for anyone.

Last covid year, we presented health-improving gifts – sanatorium vouchers, but this year there will be another, more valuable one, something is needed for joy. The main thing is to be gifts!

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Maxim Tretyakov, General Director of ElKat LLC (copper production), Vice President of the Association “NP” Opora “”:

We will definitely pay! Surprisingly, it was a good year for the company, and, accordingly, there will be good bonuses for both employees and management – each according to his merits. I think the amount of payments will be more than the previous year, we have a fairly fair motivational system tied to the financial result. This year it is not bad, and, accordingly, the gratitude of the owners to the employees will be higher.

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Maxim Basov, General Director of PJSC SUEK:

“This year has been very difficult. Many goals will be achieved. Employees will be rewarded for good work. The amount is determined by the result and the payment policy.

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Alexander Kravtsov, owner of the Ruyan group of companies and the Expedition brand:

– I have been paying New Year’s bonuses for all 28 years of managing various areas of activity and projects. It is through encouragement that participation in the common success is grown. Therefore, almost 50% of the team has been preserved for decades.

In general, the results of the year are not brilliant, but satisfactory for us. For example, our restaurant, which has two Michelin stars, is significantly better, especially when compared with the average market indicators – in Moscow it fell by 40%.

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Yuri Krasovsky, President of the betting company “Liga Stavok”:

– We will not break the tradition, there will be gifts for the New Year. All previous years, including the pandemic, we encouraged not only the company’s employees, but also their children. Prepared New Year’s gifts and arranged a New Year’s tree. This year we decided to cancel the corporate party, and use the freed up budget for gifts for employees and Christmas trees for their children. Supporting each other and the spirit of the team is the key to the future success of the company.

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Irina Rogovtseva, owner of the Royal Greenhouses group of companies:

– Always and under any circumstances will be. Even during the pandemic, we did it. But our bonuses and incentives are not monetary. We provide financial assistance, but not on New Year’s Eve, but in difficult life situations.

I know my employees and have a good idea of ​​what can please them before the holiday. Therefore, by the New Year, we give them a romantic evening in a restaurant or cafe, a trip to the spa, stylist services, manicure or haircut. The team in the company is almost entirely female, so employees really like such gifts. This year it has become a little more difficult to choose due to the difficult situation on the market: before, the choice was wider and the prices were lower.

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Olga Uskova, founder and president of Cognitive Technologies Group:

– There will be prizes. At the beginning of the year, we did not designate any financial incentives for employees. Only working and ideological guidelines: we must do, we must build, we must achieve, we must conquer!

And it was a year of revolutionary work for the whole team – no one ran away, no one whined, everyone worked beyond their efforts. They worked not for money, but for an idea and showed completely unique results, which should be fairly distributed in the form of bonuses, go to the families of employees who have not seen their loved ones for weeks.

Group “Direct speech”