> In other words: people want more meaningful work, not merely to have less meaningless work. The truly frustrating thing about this is sometimes all that take

> In other words: people want more meaningful work, not merely to have less meaningless work. The truly frustrating thing about this is sometimes all that takes is keeping your employees informed. My current job's work feels very empty because management simply will not update us on the state of negotiations and sales unless we do something just short of cornering them while holding socks stuffed with soap. Meanwhile, they've promised more transparency multiple times. This is only a five person company, so it's not like we're asking for much (or, really, anything at all -- this should be a normal and expected feature of a small startup). It seems like such an easy way to keep your employees knowledgeable about what their work is actually going towards and without that, it's just a purposeless slog. I need a new job.