Beware These Mistakes That Will Hurt Employee Engagement

The vast majority of the heated head count conversations taking place in businesses across the country are primarily focused on workforce reductions, with companies thinking purely short term and trying to save their way to success. Sadly, this is both a pipe dream and a fool’s errand. It’s still the rule that you’ve got to spend money to make money. Simply cutting back broadly and indiscriminately on your people across the board in a frantic panic designed to please your directors and bankers isn’t the way to build your business for the future.

You have spent time and plenty of dollars finding and training these folks, and their experience and specific product and service know-how isn’t going to be that easy to replace when things get better. The general stupidity of the DOGE people in their wholesale dismissals and especially the work of the wrestling moron running the Department of Education (who is now begging dozens of key employees who were abruptly dumped to return to their jobs) is a great example of exactly what not to do.

The next most frequent discussions relate to the need for rapid recruitment of new employees with an overemphasis on AI-first prospects. Of course, virtually every profile on LinkedIn has already been modified to describe AI chops and vast abilities in that area. 

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