When the market picks up, I'm going to get out of this sh-- hole for sure. Of course, I lied in the survey!
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The survey is management's way to gauge the amount of talent about to leave the company when the market recovers. That is the reason behind having to include GIN numbers and adding in the additional questions about how much the individual knew about the Transformation. I loved how it was worded. Either you were fully engaged with the transformation effort or "you did not know or had questions about the transformation." The other three responses were in between. So I couldn't respond with the pervasive feeling in the company: The transformation has not only cost millions of dollars, it has cost the jobs of many thousands of people and the morale of the underlings remaining. I think being the "best run company in the world" has become synonymous with being the "least-motivated workforce in the world". In a company inundated with KPI targets and percentages and other useless metrics it's no wonder people can't come to work and do a good job. There's always some bureaucratic manager there protecting their PIP and transferring blame when a higher up calls. As CEO PK said, either you're on the train or you're on the tracks. Hasn't he ever heard of a train wreck?
Engaged to excel in what? Dodging axes and hiding from the transformation squad?