Motivation among American workers is on the wane this year, and a majority of them aren’t highly engaged with their jobs — reducing their productivity — a new survey shows.
It feels like we’re just a dot in a complex scatterplot, the way statistics can measure and index an employee’s motivation. Maybe they can even use the same math to measure your own motivation. Imagine getting fired because you “lacked motivation” according to a computer. Maybe that’s not how we should cooperate as a species.
My workplace recently showed us the results from our yearly survey…
If it wasn’t anonymous (which frankly it might not be) they literally have that information for us, but from self report. They called out that company wide (under 200 total employees) there are 10 people actively disengaged (I’m one of them) and a third of the company is barely engaged.
The sad thing is everyone spent the rest of that day talking about how much it sucks that so many people are disengaged, and how those people must not understand how great it is, like it was scandalous to not love working here.
Funny I know of a survey like that but for a company of only about 50 and it was 55% of the company was disengaged and they had an emergency meeting to cover the sadness facing their employees. Bragged about management until one of them said they were in the disengaged group
Since then an entire location was shut down and all employees fired there and 3 aupervisors have quit.
Still plenty of conversation on the sadness of company work but in whispers and private conversation
I used to think doxking your pay was fake until it happened to my coworker. His car broke down and he missed his first day ever. The coal mine cut his pay by 3 dollars.
He still spends all of his time starting fights with the union people and removed about how they protect the lazy.
If something would make someone money, that thing has happened, full stop. That is sadly our reality, and it will stay that way while greed is seen as an acceptable driver of behavior.
It feels like we’re just a dot in a complex scatterplot, the way statistics can measure and index an employee’s motivation. Maybe they can even use the same math to measure your own motivation. Imagine getting fired because you “lacked motivation” according to a computer. Maybe that’s not how we should cooperate as a species.
My workplace recently showed us the results from our yearly survey…
If it wasn’t anonymous (which frankly it might not be) they literally have that information for us, but from self report. They called out that company wide (under 200 total employees) there are 10 people actively disengaged (I’m one of them) and a third of the company is barely engaged.
The sad thing is everyone spent the rest of that day talking about how much it sucks that so many people are disengaged, and how those people must not understand how great it is, like it was scandalous to not love working here.
Funny I know of a survey like that but for a company of only about 50 and it was 55% of the company was disengaged and they had an emergency meeting to cover the sadness facing their employees. Bragged about management until one of them said they were in the disengaged group
Since then an entire location was shut down and all employees fired there and 3 aupervisors have quit.
Still plenty of conversation on the sadness of company work but in whispers and private conversation
“Our systems noticed you only smiled 35% of your time at this job over the last month. Your pay will be docked accordingly.”
“I literally smiled all day!”
“Yes, but the computer felt it was forced.”
I used to think doxking your pay was fake until it happened to my coworker. His car broke down and he missed his first day ever. The coal mine cut his pay by 3 dollars.
He still spends all of his time starting fights with the union people and removed about how they protect the lazy.
If something would make someone money, that thing has happened, full stop. That is sadly our reality, and it will stay that way while greed is seen as an acceptable driver of behavior.