If team-building activities are too frequent and low in quality, and they always take up holiday ti, most employees will resent it and complain that it’s better to give the money directly as a bonus, especially those with families.
In so small companies, there are even strange bosses who crowdfund for team-building. They must really want to run the company into the ground.
But in many large companies, the operations of many things are a bit like an official agency with budget allocations, including specific activity funds that cannot be distributed directly to employees if not used.
Gao Xue’e is a leader who also prefers organizing team-building, but since the Cloud Living Business Group has always been a relatively marginal departnt, she exercises restraint, and the frequency of team-building is not high, mostly under the guise of welcoming newcors in the past six months.
When work is busy, it’s nothing more than a dinner gathering in the evening. If work is not too busy and there are no new employees, the departnt basically has an outdoor activity once a month.
This ti, the activity is coincidentally sponsored by a partner.
The Bada Group is a large enterprise in Qi Yuan, with industries involving culture, tourism, entertainnt, and real estate. It has a five-star hotel in Qi Yuan City, and the hotel’s annex is a health club.
The club has four floors. The first floor is a standard swimming pool and indoor water amusent projects. The second floor has a buffet restaurant, a chess and card room, family cinema, ga rooms, etc., suitable for parties or large-scale imrsive gas.
The third floor has various thed guest rooms offering spa and wellness services, with suite living rooms equipped with KTV facilities, like entertainnt rooms with bedrooms and bathrooms.
The fourth floor has various fitness equipnt, along with dance, yoga, and body shaping studios equipped with instructors. Why is the gym on the fourth floor? Because you can move around in a bathrobe from the first to the third floor, it’s convenient.
The bathrobes co in long versions and two-piece ho-style versions.
The positioning of the Bada Health Club is to provide safe and healthy fitness leisure and social entertainnt services for high-end custors. It’s a mbership-based club, and mbership cards are quite expensive.
But in recent years, business has been hard to manage, with sales shrinking significantly. Fitness centers and entertainnt venues outside have been closing in batches, and the larger and more high-end the place, the greater the impact.
The Bada Club uses its group’s property and doesn’t have to pay rent, which barely keeps it afloat. With a slight market recovery recently, they have to quickly find ways to regain losses.
Cancel mbership thresholds, or discount and sell at a low price? This would ruin their high-end brand, so they can only offer deals through other ans, by promotional cooperation and developnt.
The Bada Group also has its own promotional departnt, but it recently downsized and outsourced the promotional business to a dia company. This dia company had already cooperated with the Tengxin Qi Yuan Branch, so they naturally connected and planned an event.
They launched a new co-branded mbership card, not discounted or sold but given for free. All 500 employees of the Qi Yuan Branch each received a co-branded card with a free three-month trial.
In these three months, except for personal training, use of private boxes, and in-room services, all other services, including buffets at the club, are free, and entertainnt and fitness facilities are also fully free to use.
This is the sa as the treatnt of guests staying in the neighboring five-star hotel.
Their goal is to get enough "high-end custors" in first, then make so money from the paid projects.
After the three-month period, if soone continues to recharge, they would directly beco VIP mbers, potentially retaining so custors at that ti.
So He Kao also beca a guest mber at the Bada Health Club, free to play for three months. People like him were not the original target of the club’s developnt, but the club now has no choice but to lower its standards.
What the club is eyeing is that the employees here have relatively high incos, and many have the spending power, just that they’re usually so reclusive they don’t bother to go out, so opportunities have to be created to provide them with services.
The dia company was very thoughtful and also provided each departnt with a free experience opportunity of a guest room and box, allowing them to stay overnight, perfect for team-building.
This requires each departnt to make a reservation in advance and confirm the number of people so that arrangents can be made. Gao Xue’e was thrilled when she heard and quickly made a reservation.
Departnt employees were also very welcoming of this, as they’d already received the three-month mbership card, so why not go and try it out? Huang Xiaopang was particularly happy, even a bit excited, because this team-building was sure to involve swimming.
He was proficient in swimming since childhood, known as the Little White Dragon of the river. There are several girls and won in the departnt in great shape, and normally there’s no chance to see them in swimsuits, especially President E.
Upon hearing the news, Qian Guran couldn’t help but praise the heavens for helping him, saving him the trouble of coming up with sothing.
On Sunday, He Kao participated in the project group’s team-building at the Bada Club. Upon entry, it wasn’t much different from a bath center, with separate male and female entrances, just with fancier decor and facilities.
The changing room allows you to change into swimwear and head for the water on the first floor, or change into sports attire and head straight to the fitness on the fourth floor. President E asked everyone to gather on the first floor. There are lounge chairs and round tables by the pool, and further out are partitions with tables and chairs inside.
The business unit occupied three partitions for everyone’s bathrobes, towels, phones, etc. Colleagues who don’t go in the water can just hang out there and play on their phones or gas.
He Kao changed into his swim trunks and walked out with his phone, passing through the shower area to the corridor, intending to grab a bathrobe and towel when a staff mber reminded him, "Sir, you need to wear a swim cap in the water, and take off the pendant around your neck."
Growing up, it was He Kao’s first ti entering an indoor pool. He had only swum in the river and reservoir in his hotown. Although Qi Yuan University also had a pool, He Kao had never visited it, and others viewed him as a typical techie.
So he didn’t know these rules, just accepted what the staff said, and bought a swim cap at the service center, and put the pendant in his locker.
As he walked towards the pool, he could see Huang Xiaopang waving at him from a distance: "He Kao, over here."
He Kao walked to the departnt’s gathering area, Xiaopang was waving his arms doing what was possibly his own invented warm-up, and loudly said to He Kao, "Want to race down there?"
Not far away, Qian Guran mumbled, "You can bring your phone here too, so I’ll go get mine." He then left the lounge area and returned to the changing room.
Opening this kind of locker was no effort for Qian Guran, he did it naturally as if he was taking his own stuff, gesturing with his hand key and then quickly taking the pendant away.
He headed directly to the third floor, into a pre-booked guest room, and once inside, he took out the prepared items and tools, mainly a feline beast’s claw, shaped and sized almost identical to He Kao’s.
The upper end of the beast claw had a small hole drilled into it, tied with an old string of the sa color, sa style. Qian Guran now needed to adjust the color and texture, aiming to make the fake indistinguishable from the real.
He is a sorcerer from the Qi Observation Sect, not the Micro Realm Sect, but with a Tier Three level, many techniques from different sects have so intersections and reference points. Given his preparation, crafting this small item wasn’t difficult.
He Kao’s beast claw was evidently polished and had years of handling, its texture showing bright yellow, slightly translucent, its surface without obvious scratches or color blotches, almost perfectly matching the fake Qian Guran prepared, saving quite a bit of trouble.
An hour later, Qian Guran placed the two pendants on a tray. An ordinary person, whether by eye or touch, could hardly tell the difference.
But Qian Guran knew these two items had very large, almost inconceivable differences. When he first held He Kao’s beast claw, he discerned it was at least a magical artifact.
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