Work feels like family when five things happen: people belong, they can speak freely, stress stays manageable, they get time to think, and they earn enough to live on. When that clicks, employees thrive and business results follow.
I know many people will say, well, work is work, work is not family, but no, they feel part of that family. There's a belonging. And what it means is they're not afraid of saying their mind and their heart. Yeah. Right. People talk about psychological safety, but that's what it is. We're not stressed all the time. Some level of stress is okay, but if we are perennially operating in stress, we are in back-to-back meetings, so we don't even have time to breathe or think clearly. We're not making enough money, so we are having to work two jobs. To me, if those 5 elements are in place, that creates an environment where employees can flourish at work versus outside of it. And if they do that, businesses flourish, performance goes up.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
