Linked – Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes
Well-being programs place the responsibility for managing employee mental health in the hands of the employees, who have no power to change the things causing the problem.
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Linked – Time to Talk About Emotional Labor
Words about your workplace’s great culture ring hollow when team members regularly find themselves putting up with jerks. That’s not a great culture. That’s extra emotional labor—labor that likely doesn’t come close to matching what they are paid.
We don’t talk about this in terms of emotional labor. We talk about being resilient, staying composed, etc. We don’t talk about how exhausting it is to know that every day at work, someone is likely to yell at you, let alone know that when it happens, there will be no solution to prevent it from happening again. If they take the time to complain and ask for a solution, they’ll be told it’s “just part of the job.”
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Linked – Here’s how to celebrate World Mental Health Day 2024
I’m sure there are some CEOs out there who read that and think we’re supposed to be drained and used up. That just shows how dedicated we are to our work. That ignores the fact that work is only part of our lives. They ignore the damage that does to society when we have adults who are uninvolved with their kids’ lives, disconnected from their community, uninformed about what is happening in the world, and lacking many meaningful friendships because work requires them to have nothing left to give to those endeavors.
That’s why having a workplace that accounts for those impacts on employees’ lives is so important.
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Linked – Vast Majority of CEOs Ready to Make Remote Workers’ Lives As Miserable As Possible
Remote workforces require CEOs to develop measurements to tell who is getting work done and who isn’t. Apparently, for 89% of them, that’s too hard.
Reminder: They get paid, on average, 344 times the average worker but can’t be bothered to measure productivity meaningfully.
So, to the 11% who are not planning on this behavior, I hope you find the best talent on the market because you are not limited by who can be in the office and run circles around these dinosaurs.
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Nike’s new CEO seems like the career ladder is still intact, but even his story shows us it’s not.
I wish him well, but let’s not pretend like this story of going from an internship to running the company is possible. It wasn’t technically possible for him either.
If Hill had not left, it’s entirely possible he would have been laid off in July, like many other senior leaders at Nike.
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Dealing with OneDrive for Business Is Challenging, Disabling it isn’t the Answer
Turning off OneDrive would eliminate this risk and all opportunities to collaborate in Teams and OneDrive. Is it really worth it?
