If you let your workers take breaks, check their email, chat to loved ones and peek at social media, their productivity goes way up.
Similarly, if you micromanage your staff, their productivity plummets.
If capitalism worked, and companies were driven towards actually maximizing dividends, companies would actively invest in the infrastructure to keep employees happy and in working form. But instead, companies consistently splurge on letting upper management behave like children, including hiring a staff of handlers to keep the binky in their mouths. And that includes letting them bully the staff.
Some day, we dream, the ownership class will tremble before revolution of the proletariat, and maybe well take some steps towards a public-serving economy.
If you let your workers take breaks, check their email, chat to loved ones and peek at social media, their productivity goes way up.
Similarly, if you micromanage your staff, their productivity plummets.
If capitalism worked, and companies were driven towards actually maximizing dividends, companies would actively invest in the infrastructure to keep employees happy and in working form. But instead, companies consistently splurge on letting upper management behave like children, including hiring a staff of handlers to keep the binky in their mouths. And that includes letting them bully the staff.
Some day, we dream, the ownership class will tremble before revolution of the proletariat, and maybe well take some steps towards a public-serving economy.
But not today.