You may be driving your best talent out the door--not because of salary, not because of benefits, not because the work isn't interesting or challenging--but because of microinequities. These little, compoundingly overwhelming issues are what Seth Godin calls "A Million Little Cuts"
Look, these are not new. If Ferris Bueller ever got a job, and then filmed it, his movie would be full of these (Hmmm, I think that movie would be called 'Office Space')
As corporate America struggles to promote more women and minorities up the ladder, a new workplace buzzword is moving from executive suite to lowly cubicle. Part pop psychology, part human-resources jargon, the term microinequities puts a name on all the indirect offenses that can demoralize a talented employee.
The unfortunate part about such microinequities is that they are simultaneously so damanging and so preventable!
I would say this is a pretty accurate way of looking at why I left the corporate world.
The little cuts created stress, and that stress made me start thinking about ways to improve my situation.
I've had greater stress at jobs before, but in the last five years, I've found that my lack of a great connection at work made the stress seem worse, even though the actual work environment was better.
Posted by: Jim Durbin | March 17, 2006 9:32 AM | Permalink to Comment