Does Your Boss Value Your Time? Find Out With This 2-Minute Quiz
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen
Nearly half of employees surveyed by McKinsey this year acknowledged feeling workplace burnout. If you’re among these, the root cause could be traced to a number of common issues: dissatisfaction, boredom, lack of appreciation, micro-management or complexity.
I’ve researched the impact of complexity on employees — and the findings are equal parts bleak and unsurprising. Even before Covid-19 disrupted the global economy, study after study found complexity to be a key contributor to frustration and misery among professionals. Discontent at work prevents us from harnessing our creativity and compels us to leave our jobs more frequently. Yet, when all we do is attend meetings and send emails, it’s not hard to understand why we’re neither engaged nor creative.
Complexity, in most cases, is driven by organizational culture, but occasionally, it’s isolated to a single, soul-crushing manager. To determine if your work situation is the former or latter, answer the following four statements with either “Consistently,” “Sometimes,” “Rarely” or “Never.”
1. My manager has encouraged me to find smart workarounds and timesavers that solve a problem or address a customer/client need.
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