THERE IS A HELL! - - - IT IS CALLED RETAIL - EMPLOYEES’ LOATHE THEIR WORKPLACE

EMPLOYEES’ LOATHE THEIR WORKPLACE
Look at the co-worker to your left. Now! to your right. At least one of them loathes their job.
Maybe you do, too.
According to a recent survey of working adults, 52% of
employees say they are not engaged in their work. They
limp to work, toiling without passion. That’s half the
workforce! Another 18% describe themselves as "actively
disengaged” – disgruntled and spreading bitterness among
co-workers. With the exception of recession periods, the
majority of employees start each New Year vowing to look
for a new job.
Imagine a 10-person bicycle. This means that three people
are pedalling, five are pretending to pedal, and two are
jamming the brakes. That's you, corporate America.
Now scale that bike higher. 520 out of every 1000 employees don’t care. 180 are trying to
sabotage the place. 300 are left doing their darnedest.
The most strategic act that any organization can take is to better engage and inspire team
members. Here are, what I consider, three (of many) ways you can make life better at work
and for your employees.

1) Abandon your sick-pay and vacation-pay policies.

If you can't trust me when I say I have the flu, why are you letting me engage with
customers, define budgets, stack shelves, merchandize the warehouse and shop floor and
access internal documents?
There's a radical disrespect involved in limiting the number of sick days employees can take
each year. Replace that with this simple policy: Require that everyone NOT come to work
when they’re sick. If you think an employee will abuse this system, you need to re-assess
your entire relationship with them. Your workspace is about to get a lot healthier on multiple
fronts.
From here, get rid of limited vacation days, too. Show employees that you value the
sustainability of their great work by letting them take what they need, approved by their
managers. I have observe that the best use of this policy is the use of half days where
needed to tend to life. A culture built on trust and respect will pay for itself several times
over.

2) Make your office or work place live and breathe.

Employees spend a third of their lives at work. Make your office or shop floor a place
someone would actually want to spend time.
No sane person can inhabit a cubicle or walk around a shop floor 8 -10 or more hours a day,
sedentarily, and remain healthy.

dodie ste®eo p®odu©tion ™

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