
We human beings like to categorise things. It’s a good way of keeping order in the mental filing cabinet, but as a result many things have become separated that really belong together.
Take the various 'people problems' of engagement, retention, performance, sickness and so on. These will have overlapping causes in a workplace - maybe even the same cause - so there often just different manifestations of the same thing. Yet we have them filed under different names, and so tend to think of them as being separate things.
To add to the confusion, there are many initiatives employed to help people be happier at work, from free fruit to mindfulness sessions. All these initiatives are trying to achieve the same thing, but how do you actually know which of them are doing what, and for whom?
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