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GREEN PARK — The papers today say that we’ve hit a 23 year low for employee sick-days. That’s no small achievement.
If you listened to the average mumblings of commentators, employees are fed up and… work is horrible and… and…
But maybe that’s not true. Maybe work is more interesting than it was. Maybe people are more engaged. Maybe employers are better at responding to people’s needs.
This summer (in the northern hemisphere) may be a good test. There’s a lot to distract you in most good summers:
• school plays
• tennis majors
• big horse meets
• golf championships
• summer music festivals
And then the chance employees might want to play or perform at any of these. Yes, this is a big holiday season, but maybe there’s even more reason to stay away this summer, with the World Cup, and a frankly pretty rubbish two years of economic nightmare to sleep off.
So what can you do about it?
Good question. And that’s one of the motivating factors for the World Cup guidance that we’re about to publish this week. But there’s more to it than that as well.
It’s called treating people like grown-ups.
There could be some of those rare moments of national experience. People will want to be a part of it.
You may need to find a way of making sure that you’re not the only place that won’t participate. Because engaging employees in your business is a slow and painstaking process. Disengaging them can be done much faster.
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