“Companies seem to have just completely broken any real sense of
trust in the relationship. They confuse the staff by running events that
generate loyalty—away days, open door/meet the management, let’s
all go for an evening out, Christmas dinner together—and then round
up their candidates for redundancy the next week. Staff just doesn’t
believe what management asserts anymore—that ‘our people are our
best assets’—actually, I think the people are the only asset—try running the company without people. Every piece of behavior seems to
tell the staff that management does not think much of them, doesn’t
trust them, and would happily fire them if they could find a machine
to do the job. Staff are getting conflicting signs every day.”