Employee = Hamster: You Make the Call
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.
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How would you feel if you were described as a “hamster?” Would it fire you up to redouble your discretionary effort?
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.