05/07/2025

The Cost of Shiftless Employees

When half the workforce is only giving the bare minimum

We have all worked with people who do not pull their weight. However, it's worse than you might have thought: According to fresh research, most employees, while physically showing up, as they must in a return-to-office-driven world, are checked out mentally.

And it is costing employers a sum that would make even Elon Musk blush.

According to Axios HQ's report “2025 State of Internal Comms,” employees say they're spending just 66 percent of their day doing their actual job, with the remainder lost to endless distractions, avoidable meetings — and the biggie, bad communication.

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