New research reveals that almost a third of UK workers claim never to be thanked for their personal contribution at work.
Excuse me for being hard, but I have never expect to be thanked for doing my job. It’s why we get paid, and that is reward enough for me.
And the research also finds that two in 10 respondents say they are thanked more than once a week. What?
Sure it's nice to get a ‘thank you’ for doing something extraordinary for your employer once in a blue moon, but to get praised each time I saw a days work through would have me questioning me senior authorities belief in me.
The survey results show that being thanked has a positive or very positive effect on morale for nine out of ten of those surveyed.
I see it differently, if people ran around the office back slapping each other and developing elaborate high five routines everytime a personal contribution was made at work, surely that would only encourage complacency?
Two in five employees said being thanked had a very positive effect on their productivity while 36% said it impacted on their willingness to remain with the company.
Elizabeth Houldsworth, associate professor at Henley Management College said: “We all know that saying please and thank you is an act of common courtesy, however the importance of 'thank you' in the workplace is often overlooked, but it is a means of achieving the goals of staff retention and also high performance.”
So the moral of the story is if you want someone to do their job, say please, then thank them afterwards and they will never want to leave, or ask for a pay rise ever again.
Now get back to work, please?
