Linked – How Learning And Development Can Quell Quiet Quitting
If you don’t help your people grow and advance their careers, they will not remain engaged at your workplace.
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Linked – Employees Use 4-Day Work Week to Catch up on Sleep: Study
We know that people who are sleep deprived are cognitively impaired, make more mistakes, and just generally run the risk of some pretty serious health implications. Could a 4-day work week get you more “quality” hours of work from someone who isn’t sleep-deprived than you’re currently getting in the 5-day week?
It’s something to think about.
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Linked – How to make networking events less intimidating and awkward
Don’t be a bagel. But I lost my confidence as soon as I walked into a room full of … bagels. That’s what networking expert Robbie Samuels calls the tight clusters of people who gather in seemingly impenetrable circles at networking events, who seem to already know each other and don’t want to let newcomers…
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Linked – Fired admin cripples former employer’s network using old credentials
I spent a lot of my time these days focused on onboarding, bringing in new people, getting them up to speed, and contributing. That’s an important process. So is off-boarding, because when you don’t have a proper process for departing employees, stuff like this can happen.
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Quick Thought – Work Culture is So Bad that We Use the Word Quitting to Describe Setting Boundaries.
They are setting boundaries. They are cutting back on their commitment and engagement with work because they see that work is not the most important thing in life. They make decisions based on their mental health instead of the company’s bottom line.
No one is leaving their job in this situation. No one is not doing their work. They are simply not taking on extra work and commitments that they aren’t getting paid for.
Our society’s relationship with work is so skewed that the word we have chosen for this is “quitting”. There’s something profoundly sad about that.
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Linked – What Quiet Quitting Really Means for Employees and Leaders
Let’s face it, what company in the tech or legal sector is not telling employees that the way to get ahead is to go “above and beyond” their job description? Or, as I also hear often, to get that promotion, you need to be doing part of the next job on your career path.
I also know many people, especially younger people, who hear that and immediately ask why they should be doing a job that isn’t the job they are getting paid to do.
That’s a fair question. Why should any of us stress ourselves to take on responsibilities that might allow us to get a promotion and eventually be paid for doing that work someday? Let’s face it; many people have been doing that work and getting no promotions or salary adjustments for years. They see that and want no part of it.
Why would we do that to ourselves? Maybe we all should figure out a better way to evaluate and promote people.
