Workplace Engagement - Needed Now

This is your watch, yours to own, and shift handover has never been more on the line than it is now. The upcoming generation have to inherit something, and it's up to us to make sure there's a workable future worth investing in!

The illusion that piles of money will make for better things has to die sometime - whether on Snowpiercer or on the train home is a matter for personal consideration. I don't know what will come of my life's work, or if it will make a difference. All I know is that the world is changing fast; as precedents have to be set, hard choices need to be made.

You can vote for yourself, or you can grant hundreds and thousands of families an opportunity to flourish as this unprecedented era takes hold. You can safeguard the mental welfare of countless people by lifting your workplace above the inertia and despair that's typifying traditional industry - and nobody can truthfully say it's not like that. They can argue that it's always been this way; "keep people afraid, and they will do as they're told." In modern parlance, "if they don't like it, they know where the door is."

The ball and chain of managerial history forged in the Industrial Revolution has carried itself past the point of logical encumbrance, clutching to vestiges of humanitarianism over a hundred years old while its advocates desperately claw towards some perceived version of freedom against walls that continue to be built. Whichever side of the wall anyone believes they are on, damage is going to be done and we don't know what that will look like, we only know that if it's in our power to limit damage, we should.

If you have come through a history of hardship in any way at all, you're free to empathise with the people you employ, well equipped to turn tides of despondence into rays of hope that become real working environments; shining examples of community where people love to be and enjoy feeling loyalty. Is that not worth passing on to your children?

Seeing the effects first-hand, they in turn will stand for a version of humanist leadership that makes sense. Everybody profits when transformation happens; it takes a certain kind of leader to see through blocks.

So here is Choice. Continue to support the undermining of engagement by doing nothing, or do something about cultural dysfunction today - sow the seeds for a harvest that fosters sustainable growth, hurts no-one, and does what it says on the tin.

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