Graceful Air Is Added Bonus at John Lewis ; City Spy Cityspy@Standard.Co.Uk

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BONUSES may be, er, a bone of contention these days, but at the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership they're handled with all the style and grace you'd expect from the never-knowingly-undersold retailer.

The bonus announcement is always awaited with great excitement in every John Lewis department store, office and Waitrose around the country. At precisely 9.30am on the big day (it was yesterday this year), the "partners" -- they're known as staff everywhere else -- crowd around while a chosen one of their number, often the oldest, youngest or newest employee in the place, rips open a sealed envelope then waves aloft the magic number.

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Graceful Air Is Added Bonus at John Lewis ; City Spy Cityspy@Standard.Co.Uk

Yesterday it was 13...

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