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Employee = Hamster: You Make the Call

May 5, 2008 by David Zinger 2 Comments

A recent large scale employee engagement survey categorized some workers as hamsters: “those working hard but at the wrong things.” Initially I thought it was a cute image to understand engagement. Later I began to wonder about the appropriateness of using the term hamster to refer to employees.

What do you think? Should we refer to a group of employees as hamsters? You make the call.

Take 3 seconds to click the button below and vote yes or no.

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There is additional space to write a comment. I will write about your responses to this survey next week.

Filed Under: Employee Engagement

Comments

  1. Wally Bock says

    May 5, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    How would you feel if you were described as a “hamster?” Would it fire you up to redouble your discretionary effort?

  2. David Zinger says

    May 5, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    I think I would see is as a “wheely” big deal! No redouble efforts, in fact no effort at all, it would cheese me off.

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