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To elaborate, the things that often lead to unhappy workers also include: - Unknown expectations from the job - Little or no control over decisions that af
by 0xmohit 10y ago
To elaborate, the things that often lead to unhappy workers also include:
- Unknown expectations from the job
- Little or no control over decisions that affect your job
- Missing feeling of involvement
The fair treatment bit is mentioned in the article. The reality is that people tend to be more irrational than they probably ought to be which usually has significant (negative) side-effects.
- brianvan5155 10y agoThese factors indeed would stress people out. Put poor compensation and poor quality-of-living on this list as well, since we now live in a race-to-the-bottom global labor marketplace, and companies are aiming for absolute low payroll costs rather than location-adjusted costs. People will take a job at a unsustainable salary in the hopes of proving themselves and eventually receiving a compensation upgrade; there is a non-zero number of companies out there who have the exact opposite plan as a rule. We can also say that not-every-boss is the irritant in a bad workplace situation, but that's a nitpick. Yes, I've had the bad-boss-in-a-good-organization and I've had the great-boss-in-a-rotten-job scenarios. In the latter type of situation, at least one human in a management or executive role made decisions that adversely affected my personal growth, workplace conditions, or feedback relationship with the company. It was often many humans up-the-chain making these kinds of decisions, in a loosely (sadistically) coordinated fashion, fully aware that their handling of resources was resulting in human suffering. If you have a great boss, both your job and his/her job can still be very, very stressful and limiting. Since we know that it's possible to run companies that don't have chronic worker stress issues, it's very much immoral to put people through this in the service of any business or organizational goals. (This applies to not-for-profit orgs, too)
- 0xmohit 10y agoThe following image sums up the stress/burnout part rather well: http://imgur.com/a/k6MPj http://imgur.com/a/k6MPj
- fallingfrog 10y agoThis is why we need workplace democracy and worker ownership of businesses.. It's no big surprise that the places where there is the least amount of personal agency and the most hierarchical control of employees are the places that are highest in alienation, suicide, and burnout. Whereas the first few founders of a new company work harder and work better than the ones who come later. Because they are free to make decisions and they own what they are creating.
- fallingfrog 10y agoThis is why we need workplace democracy and worker ownership of businesses.. It's no big surprise that the places where there is the least amount of personal agency and the most hierarchical control of employees are the places that are highest in alienation, suicide, and burnout. Whereas the first few founders of a new company work harder and work better than the ones who come later. Because they are free to make decisions and they own what they are creating.