An aggrieved billionaire this week lamented that workers had grown lazy and "arrogant" during the coronavirus pandemic and that many of them needed to be made unemployed for the situation to improve.The Australian Financial Review reports that Tim Gurner, the founder and CEO of the Gurner Group, exp...
He’s not wrong about that, but I think the root of the problem is with management. There’s a problem with lazy and terrible management, not workers. At the company I work for, there are teams and teams of lazy good for nothing people everywhere. Most of them maybe do an hour or two of real work every week. When I talk to them, they are bored, aimless, and feel as though their work doesn’t really matter. I strongly believe it’s due to lack of leadership. Not management. Leadership. The department has no real goals. There are no projects solving real problems. Everything is just maintaining some janky tech debt or building some manual process because management likes their spreadsheets a certain way.
When there’s a liquidation of management and a culling down to actual leaders, the workers will want to work. They’ll find things to do because that’s what people do in a good environment under a good leader.
The arrogance is primarily a management problem. There are too many in power that are at our above their level of incompetence. It’s the Peter Principle on steroids.