[strictnein]

As someone also employed in a large multinational, I always enjoy the mass emails that detail the cool conventions that are being held in Vegas or <other nice locale> that thousands of my non-technical coworkers get to attend.

[kzisme]

The one thing I dislike is that sales departments are treated like gold in some instances ie: sales rallies, bonuses, contests, free vacations, cars.

Where as IT/Tech departments miss out on a lot of those.

[zeal-technology]

Do you think it would behoove a company to reward its other teams like it does its sales teams?

[kzisme]

I suppose - I just find it strange that most of the IT initiatives directly support the success of a business, and when the company sends the top 10 producing sales team members to a free Caribbean trip, and buy luxury cars for others for a year I'm sure they could shell out something for other teams rather than buying a pizza or lunch every so often.

This is just an observation as well, so I could be completely incorrect in my thinking.

[zeal-technology]

Its a great observation and one that I think has struck many people. I would be interested in hearing a sales person and development person put their views on the table about the subject so we could see both sides and compare motivators between the two roles.

[kzisme]

I would agree! While I'm not looking for handouts or anything like that the email blasts (company wide) really do sort-of shove it in everyone else's faces unintentionally.

[zeal-technology]

I might take action on this and ask our customers individually what they would like and compare across roles. If I sort this data I will definitely post my findings.

[zeal-technology]

Attending events and networking is a great way for people to get out and change up the pace of work life and learn something new. I think that this is not done nearly as often as I would like it to happen. Especially in the tech world where things are changing at such a fast rate.