Shortly explained by… Toxic work culture results in managers not firing bad employees causing the overworking of the productive ones. Fire fast, do everything you can to keep the good ones and the only thing you will do as a manager is keeping employees happy instead of managing mixed productivity with a crappy baseline.
I run a company… the largest productivity driver is giving employees total freedom and letting the lazy employees go, hear me out until the end. I would guess not firing enough bad employees causes employers to punish everyone with micromanaging tasks and efficiency. Because bad employees are lazy and try to do the minimum which creates a bellcurve on what you get forcing productivity monitoring.
I honestly don’t have the faintest clue what my employees are doing at any given time unless there is an issue and they need my help or input.
It sounds heartless but some people were meant to be door greeters are Walmart, they should not be working with people who are professionals in their field and keeping then deteriorates their co-workers mental health and motivation that drives what most people enjoy about work… accomplishing goals. Remove people that stand in the way of goals and get rid of people who are lazy…. You will end up with 10x more productivity than monitoring task based milliseconds because you bring you average work up by keeping smart people who have their shit together.
I would rather hire someone who can accomplish 5x as much because they are good… and have them waaaay underworked than employ someone who milks the clock because they know the maximum acceptable time before it becomes a problem. I encourage screwing off at work… i encourage things that are inherently bad for productivity. Monitoring people who are lazy forces the 5x’ers to be monitored into burn out and ruins the whole thing.
Also… most business owners are absolutely insane… they had to be to start a business :) we are all just crazy in different ways.
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No you would go a day without eating and get takeout the next day because you put your business before your personal well being. Working 100 hours a week is not pretty. If you treated a child the way you treat yourself on 100+ hour work weeks you would be put in prison.
My reward points paid for my last car 😂 this is great advice.
Yeah, there is a strange culture popping up where people think they can be top 1% or top .5% of income earners and have everyone else work for them from the start. They miss out on a lot of details… like working an amount very few are willing to work to get there. There are 168 hours in a week and in my first two years i have had weeks where i worked 130 of them. I am mainly writing this for anyone reading lol. I would guess at 20ish hours a week you can relate to the above.
Also when duty calls no one works 4-11 hours a week. You will always have an obligation to your business… it can claim weddings… nights out with your family…. Friendships…. Vacations… It doesn’t care about your life lol.
I work about 10… but i had to work 80-100 for about 5 years… 65-80 for 4 years and 45-60 for a year to get there. You are not going to start at 4-11 hours a week.
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I reread my comment and agree with you. I missed a very important detail and revised my comment.
I have 100% employee retention after people make it past their 90 day probationary period. This is for a 10 year old business. I have never once had anyone fear for their job and my employees love their jobs…. I make sure they know how appreciated they are and i leave them alone… i buy lunches, snacks and unless we have an issue that affects the business i just make sure the systems we have in place enable them to spend as much time as possible on the meaningful parts of their jobs.
They are all salary and none work over 40 hours a week. They have unlimited time off (they organize this per department to make sure we do ‘t have to many people out which has never been an issue). Anywho, i revised my original comment which reads much differently now :)