Employee = Hamster: You Make the Call
By David Zinger on May 5, 2008 in Employee Engagement
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.
There is additional space to write a comment. I will write about your responses to this survey next week.
Wally Bock | May 5, 2008 | Reply
How would you feel if you were described as a “hamster?” Would it fire you up to redouble your discretionary effort?
David Zinger | May 5, 2008 | Reply
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.