Deb­bie Ja­cob

Work with me here. I know we don't have any sta­tis­tics about how many peo­ple hate their jobs in T&T, but I'm bet­ting be­cause we like to im­i­tate the US so much, that we com­fort­ably fall in­to their sta­tis­tics for job-hat­ing in­di­vid­u­als, rel­a­tive­ly speak­ing. Rest as­sured, if you hate your job, you're not alone. Ac­cord­ing to a 2013 Gallup State of the Amer­i­can Work­place Re­port, just 30 per cent of full-time work­ers in the US con­sid­er their work en­gag­ing or in­spir­ing. That was re­port­ed­ly up from 28 per cent in 2010.

A lit­tle more than half of work­ers (52 per cent) claimed to pos­sess se­ri­ous cas­es of Mon­day blues: they are present at work in body, but not spir­it and they're not par­tic­u­lar­ly ex­cit­ed about their job. The re­main­ing 18 per cent were said to be "ac­tive­ly dis­en­gaged" or, as Gallup CEO Jim Clifton put it in the re­port, "roam the halls spread­ing dis­con­tent." Worse, Gallup re­ports, those ac­tive­ly dis­en­gaged em­ploy­ees cost the US up to $550 bil­lion an­nu­al­ly in lost pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.

Re­al­is­ing this, many US com­pa­nies have be­gun a cheery cam­paign of keep­ing work­ers con­tent­ed. Com­pa­nies tar­get of­fice perks. Google, which is said to have topped For­tune and the Great Place to Work In­sti­tute's an­nu­al list of 100 Best Com­pa­nies to Work For in four of the past sev­en years, in­stalled a roller hock­ey rink, nap pods and oth­er work­er­friend­ly ameni­ties at its Moun­tain View, Cal­i­for­nia head­quar­ters in the San Fran­cis­co bay area.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers