07/17/2023

Three Ways to Reenergize Your Team When Morale Is Low

Employees everywhere are suffering from chronic low engagement levels

Although the past 100 years have seen substantial improvements in working conditions around the world, particularly within the knowledge economy, our work is not yet done.

Consider that even skilled workers — who have recently benefited from higher levels of freedom and flexibility, not to mention access to meaningful jobs and careers, and employers who express the intent to improve workers’ health and well-being — suffer from chronic low engagement and productivity levels, while stress and burnout continue to rise. Add to this the pressures of economic uncertainty and a potential recession, the threat of artificial intelligence automating jobsand skills and disrupting entire industries, and the sense of languishingand loneliness that increasingly permeates the work experiences of many, and the overall picture is rather bleak.

In our view, there has never been a better time to rehumanize work. That is, in an age when a large proportion of our everyday interactions with others (e.g., clients, colleagues and bosses, and even spouses and kids) are reduced to sterile technological exchanges, while our careers seem to have been optimized for efficiency, it’s no surprise that many workers feel deprived of their creativity, curiosity and humanity altogether.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Harvard Business Review,