No one should give a crap about employees feelings. It's like crying in baseball. Ridiculous.
Fine! Don't care about how I feel about it. That's fine. I'll just work for someone else. The free market works both ways.
This is what gives rise to "quiet quitting" and other factors leading to "worker shortages". Employers now blatantly don't care about their workers. Screw 'em. Exploit 'em. If times get tough, lay 'em off. Make them stay home. Make them come in. Who cares what the workers think???
And then companies are shocked that workers have no loyalty and just focus on the money and don't think too much about their own contribution to the work. As long as the paychecks keep coming, it's all good.
Hey, we're all out for Number One, aren't we?
“No one should give a crap about employees feelings. It’s like crying in baseball. Ridiculous.”
You actually believe that baseball management doesn’t care about the feelings of their multi-million dollar talent?
“No one should give a crap about employees feelings.”
I guess your company is doing great with its fully robotic workforce, eh?
10 out of the 11 board members are in favor of pressing these people back to work in the office. The CEO of the company has been resistant to this because he fears losing some key employees.
I'm the only board member who is ambivalent about it -- and even supportive of the resistant employees (so long as they are resistant for the right reasons). At our last board of directors meeting I made a very simple statement to explain myself to the other ten board members:
"All of you should have thought of this crap back in 2020 when you bought into the COVID hysteria and insisted on sending these employees to work from home. This is what I warned you about back in March of 2020 when we first met in that emergency meeting to discuss the company's COVID protocols."
At the time, I warned everyone on the board of directors that there would never be a "return to normal" if the employees ended up working from home for more than two weeks.
Interestingly, the subject hasn't come up in recent months since we had that last meeting.
“No one should give a crap about employees feelings. It’s like crying in baseball. Ridiculous”.
That’s not an intelligent thing to say.
Correct. And no one should give a crap about an employer's wants. Nobody will work for you? Tough crap.
If employees aren’t happy, their work is bad and they leave. The best ones disproportionately leave.
I don't know so much about that. If you want to mitigate attrition you damn well better consider morale. With the young apathetic people running around with vaccine brain, it's in the employers interest to accommodate the folks that actually produce. I am specifically speaking of skilled white collar personnel, BTW. I am in software development and I'm here to tell you that the vaccine has damaged employee energy, focus, and accountability ethics. Apathy rules the day. I used to coach for continuous improvement, but now I mostly coach for sustainability.