U.S. Employee Engagement Sinks to 10-Year Low
www.gallup.com
Since last year, 3.2 million fewer employees felt enthusiastic about and involved in their work, matching a figure not seen in the U.S. since 2014.
  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    5 months ago

    Employers: “Let’s treat our entire workforce like they’re all completely expendable and let each of them know that we would happily shove them off a cliff if it would have a positive impact on our bottom line.”

    Also Employers: “Why are all our employees so disloyal and disconnected? NO oNe WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe.”

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    I’ve never been able to understand “employee engagement”. I became disengaged only a few years into my career, when it became very obvious that the whole corporate “we’re like family” pitch was pure bullshit. Yeah, like a family that kicks kids out the door when it has a couple bad quarters - a family that you’re supposed to love and go the extra mile for but don’t expect it to work the other way around.

    As a software dev I became a contractor as soon as I learned about that way to make a living, and the few times I did accept full-time jobs it was with no expectation of anything but a paycheck. I don’t know how people actually believes the company sees them as anything more than a tool and a liability they don’t want. I figured out how much benefits are actually worth and how much more I could make hourly as a contractor, pay for my own insurance and afford unpaid time off. It’s really pretty simple math.

    “But you have no job security!” LOL neither do you. Getting new contract jobs routinely took 2-3 weeks, no big deal. Clearly this is just one niche in the whole working world, and I consider myself lucky to have gone into a field where I could live that way. But honestly. believing the go-team-go bullshit really doesn’t make sense.

  • Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    We just implemented a 4 point scale for What we have accomplished and a 4 point scale for How we accomplished our work. But here is the fun part, no one was allowed to get a 4 because that should be reserved for industry changing innovations or something. And then we found out that the highest you could get on the How metric is a 2. So we have a 4x4 matrix with only like 4 combinations possible. Its ridiculous