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Post by melissacantrell on Jun 23, 2013 20:19:56 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
I think it would be very beneficial for my boss to read this article. He overworks his three shift managers, myself being one of them, and doesn't realize the effect this has on the restaurant. After working so many days straight without a day off, or months without a vacation, people tend to lose focus and performance drops. This is what has happened at my job, and the fix would be really simple. If our boss would just give us all a few days off, or give us off the days we request, we would all be much happier and more productive employees.
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Post by campbell22 on Jun 24, 2013 13:59:41 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business' Treating others the way you want to be treated is an old saying that can relate in almost any situation, especially in business situation. Owners are so excited about having improving their business that they want their employees to work for long hours on consistent bases. This may seem as if more work would be accomplished but in reality it’s overworking your employees. Employees would become fatigued over time working these long hours therefore the best and more efficient work wouldn’t be produced from them. If the boss works long hours this doesn’t mean he should require his employees to do the same because everyone have different work patterns and this also goes for if the boss took time off while expecting his employees to work hard, it’s unfair.
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Post by jacobthompson on Jun 25, 2013 8:06:57 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
This is a nice article, however, I wish more companies really did think like this. I think the reality is that most businesses really do overwork their employees. It’s nice to say that “We need to have equal work and leisure time,” but when this economy is demanding companies to do more with less, it’s much easier said than done. Hopefully, we’ll eventually reach a middle ground when it comes to this.
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Post by Tracye Yochim on Jun 26, 2013 23:16:45 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
I completely agree with this post. A healthy balance between work and pleasure is necessary for our overall health. Good work ethic is necessary to succeed , but what is success if you cannot enjoy it because you are either in poor health or too busy to reap the benefit of your hard work. Learning to work hard and enjoy life. To me, that is the true measure of success.
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Post by anthonytaormina on Jun 27, 2013 13:51:01 GMT -6
Alt link 28: INSTANT MBA: Don't Micromanage Your Employees
I dissagree with today's link. Just because someone is a prefectionist does not always mean that they are going to be a micromanager. The worst thing is the world is someone who micromanages for whatever the reason. However, being a person who strives for prefection in their own work does not mean they will require it from coworkers.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2013 17:30:36 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
I have learned this the hard way. My boss takes vacations every few months. He will just take Tuesday-Saturday off and leave us to work. The best part is, no one else receives paid vacations. He has 10 "full-time" employees. He works them 35 hours a week and they do not get even a day of paid vacation. His business is hurting majorly because of it. They work those 35 hours every week and hate their job. It is also the reason he does not get a new store like he pleases to. It's the little things in the business world - when you share your wealth and your employees are happy, your business reaps its profits.
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Post by jeff on Jun 29, 2013 21:41:45 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
Business is not just about the work that is involved, it is also about the people and the fun and the surroundings of the workplace. If you not focus n work, you become tired and myopic, which leads to you're employees realizing that you do not care about them as you should, which in turne negatively effects there work, which leads directly to poor service and unhappy customers.
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Post by shebilemoine on Jul 4, 2013 12:35:18 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
The article discusses how overworking an employee and yourself can hurt your business. I agree with the article because everyone needs time to unwind and enjoy him or herself. If the person is always at work and has no time to him or herself then the work they put in at work can start slacking. All business have times where they are busy to where employees have to work overtime but it shouldn't be an everyday thing. Employees need time off to enjoy their life outside of work.
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Post by gabrielle on Jul 6, 2013 13:58:15 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
I hve seen my boss learn this lesson the hard way and then pass the information on to other mangers in the company. There was a point when our crew roster got very low and my boss was scheduling the same crew members to close night after night for months. Eventually the workers saw they were being taken advantage of and their hard hard work was not being appreciated. So these crew members had enough and they quit, leaving the store in a bind. Having to go through that made Matt realize that he needed to put himself in the shoes of other people and take the time to realize when he is overworking people. I later heard him passing this lesson onto another manager in the company while on a conference call.
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Post by Michael Miller on Jul 8, 2013 10:40:03 GMT -6
This is a great article, however sometimes in the very beginning the ground work can be very exhausting. You have to work extremely hard in hopes and getting off the ground. As far as treating your employees like you want to be treated is a great habit. Happy employees will turn into happy customers without a doubt, it is contagious.
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Post by msimoneaux on Jul 8, 2013 21:02:23 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business' Well I must say I wish more companies would grasp this understanding. I have worked for companies where I had to work 60 hours a week and I honestly don't think it's right to the employee. Not only does their health deteriorate but so does their family life. A company should have a work life balance.
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Post by kcarson7 on Jul 10, 2013 11:05:42 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
The number one rule in any business is to keep your employees happy. As mentioned before, this is one of them main reason I have chosen to go into Human Resources. I have been treated fairly within a company, but I also have been treated unfairly, and my goal is to make sure every employee at my company is happy with their job and treated how they should be treated. If even one employee is treated unfairly and it is swept under the bus, the whole company could suffer in the long run.
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Post by lydell on Jul 17, 2013 12:19:34 GMT -6
Employees would become fatigued over time working these long hours therefore the best and more efficient work wouldn’t be produced from them.Everybody needs a little time to themselves to relax and recuperate.If you not focus n work, you become tired and myopic, which leads to you're employees realizing that you do not care about them as you should, which in turne negatively effects there work, which leads directly to poor service and unhappy customers.I’m pretty sure that the answer in no, because too much work can eventually take a toll to the body both physically and mentally.
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Post by csummers on Jul 23, 2013 1:48:30 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business'
Ms. Edmunds wrote about how business owners, when they get amped up about speaking to new prospective customers or breaking new ground for more business, the owners tend to overwork their employees. When employees are overworked, production suffers, because employee mental and physical health deteriorates, which causes missed work days. Also, morale drops in overworked employees. In my experience, I have only had that occur with one employer, in which I was right out of high school needing to make money. Since the adult employees didn’t have nearly the restrictions as the youth employees, adult employees were asked to work extended shifts multiple times a week, and then would be the first to be told to not come in, because we had worked too much. These longer-than-usual shifts wore the adult employees down, to the point that complaints were filed with the home office to correct the issue. Needless to say, I tried to leave that job as soon as I could find something less demanding.
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Post by briandavis1 on Jul 24, 2013 18:38:14 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: When You Overwork Your Employees, You're 'Cheating Yourself And Your Business' Over working employees is diffidently a bad thing for a company. Being over worked leaves you tired and not making the correct decisions for the company. A employee should be valued and appreciated, over working them would make employees rush work and make errors which will make the company run inefficient. With over working employee's you also put your company up for a law suit.
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