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5 Outdated Practices

The document discusses 5 outdated workplace practices that need to be eliminated to better engage employees. These include rigid hierarchies, fixed working hours, annual performance reviews, executives controlling all information, and annual employee surveys. Instead, the document advocates for flatter organizational structures, flexible work schedules, more frequent feedback, transparency, and using regular pulse surveys to identify issues in real-time. Embracing these new approaches is important for engaging younger employees and adapting to the changing nature of work.

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5 Outdated Practices

The document discusses 5 outdated workplace practices that need to be eliminated to better engage employees. These include rigid hierarchies, fixed working hours, annual performance reviews, executives controlling all information, and annual employee surveys. Instead, the document advocates for flatter organizational structures, flexible work schedules, more frequent feedback, transparency, and using regular pulse surveys to identify issues in real-time. Embracing these new approaches is important for engaging younger employees and adapting to the changing nature of work.

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OUTDATED WORKPLACE
PRACTICES
WE NEED TO GET RID OF
82% of employees feel the way they work is out of date and prevents them from being as
effective and efficient as they could be.

It’s time to adapt to the future of work.

Companies need to understand that the way we live our lives has changed. Things move
much faster, we’re more mobile, agile, and employees want to play a bigger role in their
companies.

Here are 5 workplace practices that we need to get rid of.

1. Hierarchy

Gone are the days where a traditional hierarchy makes any sense. Employees want as flat
of a structure as possible. Instead of being a “boss” be a co worker. Get your hands dirty
with the employees and play an equal role on the team.

Check your ego at the door, and understand that everyone there is equally valuable to the
organization.

2. Working fixed hours

Mobile devices have enabled us to work after hours and weekends very easily. Sometimes
lack of energy or life gets in the way, and we can’t get all of our work done within the 8 hour
block that was arbitrarily predetermined.

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Allow employees to optimize their schedules for whenever it’s best for them. You’ll actually
get more value out of the employees, it’s in your best interests to allow them to work
whenever it’s best for them.

Trust them that they have your business’s best intentions in mind.

3. Annual performance review

This process is so outdated and simply doesn’t work. Employees crave and need much more
frequent feedback. Instead of annual reviews, you should be doing monthly one-on-ones
with employees to make sure they’re progressing in their work and there aren’t any big
issues going on with them.

The longer you wait for these issues to resolve, the bigger they’ll get and it might be too late.

4. Executives controlling all the information

Whether you like it or not, companies are becoming more and more transparent.

There’s no need to hold anything back anymore. Knowledge is power. If you can give
employees the information they need they’ll be in a much better position to make better
decisions, which is better for your company.

The smartest thing you can do is embrace transparency. It’s coming, so you might as well get
used to it.

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5. Annual employee surveys

Companies spend an unusual amount of time and energy planning annual surveys and use
those results to plan a year’s worth of actions. The problem is, annual surveys are useless.

They’re long, boring, and take too long to analyze.

What you need instead, is real-time measuring of employees. You should be using short
pulse surveys to make sure that you can spot trends before they become problems.

Embrace the new way of working instead of fighting it.

Ask your younger employees about what they want out of work, they have a wealth of
knowledge that you should be taking advantage of.

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