Signs Your Employees Are Miserable

If you are the manager where you work, how is it going for you in regard to how your staff is doing? Would you say it is good or would you say it is bad? In order for you to make yourself look good and reduce your turnover rate while avoiding the high costs that come with it, you need to have happy workers. By reading this article, you will learn how managers can detect that employees are unhappy.

They let you know personally. They either make their dissatisfaction known after they come into your office on their own or you conduct a poll among them to learn what they think about the firm and how things can get better.

You "hear it on the grapevine", so to speak. You either overhear them blasting the company or their colleagues make their frustration known to others in the organization.

You have a high turnover rate in which many members of your staff leave after only being on the job for a short period of time. "How can this be?" you ask. It mostly has to do with how you treat them. One of the biggest reasons workers leave so soon in droves is they do not like the way the members of the management team treat them.

They depart in an "in your face" manner. They abruptly quit without giving advanced notice.

You can tell by the look on their faces. They always appear to be sad.

They suddenly snap, especially if you or other supervisors yell at them periodically. The more people are treated like a doormat, the more hostility and bad memories they are likely to build up. The more irritated you become over time, the more likely you are to eventually lose your cool.

They do not try to do a good job. Once after a supervisor yelled at me to move to another station without provocation, I did not put any effort into my job for the rest of the day - I was already becoming disillusioned with the firm.

They avoid working as much as they can. They are sometimes absent without notification or they frequently arrive late and leave early.

They do not sound cheerful. They talk with no pep in their voices during the company meetings and their interactions with others on company time.

You have learned how managers can tell their employees are unhappy.