John Tinsley, Director, Compandben Companies, says: "Quite exciting if it succeeds.
"We usually send out some existing handbooks for the client to choose whether a long 'USA style' handbook is required or a short one for a small office. We aim that the handbooks for each country should LOOK the same, with the same layout, typeface, chapter headings for all countries - but of course each handbook will have varying conditions for vacation, hours of work, overtime, public holidays etc.
"So an employee will be able to go from one office to another and see a document that is very similar in each office. It makes the firm look unified rather than being composed of several different companies.
"We were asked to produce one single handbook for the whole of Europe: as a compromise we have suggested that the handbooks could be called... “XXX Corp European Staff Handbook -FRANCE” and “XXX Corp European Staff Handbook -CANADA” and so on."