The Toxic False Narrative of, “People Don’t Want to Work Anymore” Kills Organizational Culture.

A company’s organizational culture is delicate and complex, especially in remote work modalities, because of shifts in leadership and communication skills. With business leadership screaming the false narrative that “people don’t want to work anymore,” they are lying to themselves and the workforce and killing their company culture.

The workforce intelligence and research communities have been studied psychologically and sociologically since the beginning of the industrial era. One unchanged concept is that the workplace culture is like a living organism. One bad apple ruins the bunch for everyone and can have drastic consequences for the whole economy. The modality of #remoteworking has brought a shift back to traditional leadership values of cultivating culture and valuing our teams as a business is symbiotic. When employees feel secure, their safety and time are valued, and their personal life is given space to not be overtaken by work, employees thrive, and so does business.

What do we do to change this tune? More leadership development needs to be done to help cultivate a work-life balance culture to help ensure the quality of our workforce. The first thing that needs to be adapted in leadership is the understanding that there are no more middle managers that just manage in remote work. There are producing managers who take on more of a teacher/ coordinator role. Leadership is less about the spotlight and more about highlighting their teams. Also, doing away with the toxic leadership tricks of getting free labor. Asking workers to work for free belittles their contributions to the company they make during their work day and shows that they are not valued. Studies also show that forced or pushed overtime hinders productivity and lowers quality.

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