Thinking about how the human staff of any organization is an extension of their presence in the world.
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Thinking about how the human staff of any organization is an extension of their presence in the world. Consider 100 employees, reasonably happy with their job. That's 100 people who will notice things that might hurt the company, organically promote it's reach, come up with new ideas for future projects.
When some of the staff like their jobs less because you treat them poorly that shrinks. When you contract the work out? it shrinks more. When you replace them with AI it becomes a pinpoint.
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The way that some "business leaders" seem to think, especially their behavior around AI makes me wonder if they are totally disinterested in building a powerful and persistent organization.
For all the talk of "team members" and "sandwich artists" there are a lot of companies that aren't organized as collective projects at all.
What I think they find even more difficult? the notion that all employees can have good ideas and their input can be valuable.
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You know who might know a lot about how to make sandwiches faster?
The guy who makes dozens of them a day.
But if you work at these companies you'd never tell them because they'd just cut your hours if they even bothered to listen and didn't somehow penalize you for being disruptive or complaining.
If I ran a company I'd want everyone who worked their to brag about their job. This can happen.
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Simply insisting employees call each other "family" or having team building exercises won't do it either. These superficial changes can produce vapors of the benefits, in the long run everyone gets annoyed and makes fun of them relentlessly because they are just cynical surface level changes.
The real changes are:
1. Employees have input and a stake in how the business is run.
2. Better compensation and benefits
3. Better working conditions.It's not rocket science.
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@futurebird I suspect that the expectation that nobody from workers to stakeholders will be in the same place for any significant amount of time is giving all of the wrong incentives.
i.e. no real point to contribute to the success of the business beyond the bare minimum if they are going to lay you off at the next chance
but no real point to get employees to work to improve the business long term, if next quarter you may be running a different business, either (or if next quarter you may have sold your shares to buy different ones)
I have no idea how the vicious cycle could be broken
