This year 1,348 Copier Channel sales managers responded to our online Sales Manager Salary Survey. Their responses reflect an industry that is increasingly an IT-based channel and the challenges that ongoing change creates for sales managers.
Poll: What Is the Most Important Manager Quality?
This month, we published our 2017 Sales Manager Salary Survey and we’ll be publishing our survey for service/operations managers in August. So, we were curious to hear what Copier Channel professionals think is the most important manger quality. We had a grand total of 7,473 votes last month!
Ricoh Continues Global Workforce Reduction
There’s been another round of Ricoh layoffs this month, affecting Major Accounts Sales Managers and Representatives. According to Nikkei Asian Review, this is part of a major restructuring effort spearheaded by President and CEO, Yoshinori Yamashita, who took the helm in April. Nikkei reports, Yamashita’s “new policy is to rid Ricoh of its emphasis on market share above all else. This is a gamble, perhaps more so considering that gunning for market share is in Ricoh’s DNA.”
2017 Service Technician Salary Survey Results
Clearly, the bottom line in job satisfaction for copier techs involves a lot more than a paycheck. One indicator is that 29% of respondents said they want to know that their work is important to the company’s success, an increase of 9 percentage points in this year’s survey.
Copier Careers 2017 Service Technician Salary Survey
Our 2017 Service Technician Salary Survey is now available! 4,708 copier techs responded this year: Demand for qualified techs is up, salaries increased slightly, & technicians are increasingly open to changing jobs.