A new trend in the workplace, called: “the bare minimum Mondays” is not impressing employers. Workers recovering from the weekend- potentially hungover- do not make a winning team. Workplace expert, Scott Curley, says these employees do not understand it’s not just about riding the clock. “It’s more than you just collecting money because you’re sitting here, we need something for that time.” He said.
Curley says it begins with leadership. “If you create an environment where that is tolerated or allowed, then that’s going to happen. What is it that we’re doing that makes the employees feel like this is ok?”
Often, he says this is an uphill battle with younger generations that have entitlement issues or have a need to take time to ‘mentally regroup’ for mental health to ensure they are able to perform has become more common.
“This group doesn’t understand the concept. If a client pays you $100 to perform a service, at the time we said the service would- they expect that service to be done then. That’s where the disconnect lies. When we must fight this battle with this group of people-while they get their head together- that’s happening at the expense of the customer and that’s not acceptable.” He said.
Curley says it all starts from the top and trickles down. He said he just had a meeting with leadership reiterating the message they are only as good as their “boots on the ground” meaning- if lower levels of employees reflect bad behavior, it’s a reflection of leadership. For Curley, they are transparent he says, but if needed they will go a different direction incentivizing the employees that don’t want to be there to find something else that works for them.