This post above received more than 12 thousand likes on LinkedIn. Now I ask: Would you, as a entrepreneur, want to have employees on your team with this kind of attitude?
Honestly, I was really surprised by this post, for 2 reasons:
1) I didn’t expect such a negative message to be so popular.
2) I didn’t imagine that so many people, in a public and visible way for everyone, would identify with the idea that they hate their job.
As an entrepreneur, one of my main goals and responsibilities is to ensure that all members of my team are happy and satisfied with their work.
If I question the possibility of my employees enjoying their jobs, how can I trust them and feel safe delegating tasks and investing in their empowerment?
How can I, as a businessman, seriously allocate resources to training my employees if I believe that the majority of them are planning to leave their jobs as quickly as possible?
I don’t think it’s necessary to become an entrepreneur to have autonomy. In a healthy work environment, people have a high level of freedom over how they perform their tasks, even if they have a boss.
In the right environment, a person can be happy even if he/she is working without a monetary compensation. During the last 5 years I’ve worked with dozens of interns in my companies. They were working for free, they were highly motivated and they did a great job.
There are many different kinds of organizations, with different sizes and different cultures. If a person does not like the corporate environment, he/she can try working for a startup, for a medium business or even for a non-profit organization.
I think that we as leaders need to make an effort to understand what is really troubling the members of our team. Is it the work or their attitude towards work? Perhaps people who are complaining never had the luck of working with a good boss that invested in their growth and professional development.
Do you agree? Please feel free to share your opinion in the comments below.
