The Sure Way to Alienate Your Employees During Covid

  • Date: 24-Sep-2020
  • Source: Inc.
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:GCC
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The Sure Way to Alienate Your Employees During Covid

All employees are required to wear masks when walking around, keep socially distanced while seated, and must eat lunch their desks--no group lunches in the cafeteria.Unless, of course, you're part of the executive team. They walk the halls without masks and eat lunch together in a conference room.One of my readers described this situation to me. Can you imagine what this is doing to employee morale? My reader was not happy.Practice what you preachWhether or not you think masks help prevent Covid-19 transmission is irrelevant in this situation. If your company policy requires it or your state law requires it, then the CEO and senior management team should never, ever, not for thirty seconds, violate that rule. You cannot expect your employees to respect and follow you in business matters when