What your employees really want

Gig work, The Great Resignation, and “Quiet Quitting” become news bites that spread negativity when it comes to employment.

Hating your job is a punchline in our culture – comic strips, sitcoms, and cinema all portray the same trope about a hollow soul having to drag themselves to work, dreaming about where they would rather be.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

According to a Gallup worldwide employment survey, nearly 60% of global workers are Quiet Quitting. This term refers to mental disengagement from your work, which essentially comes from a lack of purpose.

That same survey reports that “low engagement costs the global economy $8.8 trillion dollars, or 9% of global GDP.”

Hiring is difficult these days, and we all know it.

Getting talented people to work for you requires good pay, a great workplace environment, and work they can be proud of. Profit is the key to each and every one of these things.

Your employees need your business to be healthy.

Profit can build a place that people look forward to coming to each morning, to do fulfilling work, and leave satisfied at the end of the day.

It takes money to pay competitively, to hire quality people, and to keep the team focused on the customers.

It takes money to give back and to innovate.

It takes money to buy better, faster, and safer equipment for your team to use.

This has an impact that carries beyond the four walls of the business, too. When employees have margin in their lives, their families flourish, and their overall satisfaction rises.

Instead of working late at a job they hate and bringing their discouragement home, they can leave work at work, satisfied with a good day full of purposeful effort.

This energy gets passed to their loved ones, multiplying your efforts.

Your team matters. Workplace satisfaction matters. People want to do good work that makes an impact.

Loving your employees starts with profit.

Simon is author and founder of Profit Hiker: 11 Trails to gain lasting elevation in your business. Find the book right here and the program over there.