Stat of the week: 64% don’t receive frequent recognition at work

Re:Stat of the week: 64% don’t receive frequent recognition ... by nysauhem on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @04:11PM (#1808545)

I think this statistic is neither surprising nor problematic. Would you really expect more than 36% of the workforce to be frequently deserving of recognition? The job of management is not to give lip-service praise to all their employees.

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Re:Stat of the week: 64% don’t receive frequent recognition ... by msbarnett on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:06PM (#1808760)

I disagree -- if an employee is providing an indispensable contribution to the company, you need to be recognizing and praising them, or sooner or later they are going to stop contributing at a high level or jump to another opportunity.

And if an employee isn't providing an indispensable contribution, why are you still employing them? If 64% of your workforce isn't providing any value worth recognizing, your workforce is far too large.

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Re:Stat of the week: 64% don’t receive frequent recognition ... by mmt on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:42PM (#1808911)

Personally, I'm surprised that the 64% number is so low.

My calling, system administration, is definitely one where, the better I do my job, the less visible my work is, but it's easy to forget this is not the case for everyone else.

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Re:Stat of the week: 64% don’t receive frequent recognition ... by nck4222 on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:57PM (#1808967)

Isn't this basically the "grade students to produce a bell curve" vs "if a students produces A quality work, they get an A" argument?

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Re:Stat of the week: 64% don’t receive frequent recognition ... by mcknz on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:48PM (#1808937)

How much you want to bet that on average, 36% of the employees for any given company is engaged in new business/sales/pre-sales?

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