Free snacks and massages don't fix a toxic workplace. When employees are already stressed and suffering, surface-level perks can't make them thrive. Real change requires addressing the actual culture, not just covering it up.
It comes back to the point of if you are carrying so much burden and you're suffering, it's very hard to create flourishing.
Yeah, space. So I want to go there.
In your experience, when you've seen flourishing efforts fail, what are some of the most common failure modes you've seen? Flourishing, well-being, you know, efforts. Everybody's investing so much money in that, and yet most of them are failing.
Yeah. What are the most common failures? Well, one is like superficial stuff, like we have massages on Thursdays and we have free snacks in the break room and we have flex time. Okay, why? Why do we have all these things? Because people are very stressed out. But what's causing the stress?
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
