Engaged workers might be busy - pretending, research finds. Study warns that teams can appear productive in the workplace but actually behave in Machiavellian ways.
And I was, like, why should they be engaged and bright-eyed bushy-tailed little peons of capitalism? I liked my job more than most people like their job, probably, and even so there was a fair amount of time in any given day when I was just noodling around in some way or other. That is life and being human.
(Are we not reminded, my dearios, of Sir Charles Chaplin's searing critique of the doctrine of industrial efficiency and its adverse effect on the human spirit.
Modern Times (1936)?).
Blud thickt with cold at reading this: '[I]t is actually through collective and shared goals that we can reap productivity'. Next, no doubt, the compulsory self-criticism sessions.
Though would that be any worse than this current cunning strategy: 'Team leaders, the report notes, often resort to “organised fun” to bring try to build relationships'? Aaaaaargh. Mass pulling of sickies when this is announced, no?
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