How to create and manage a happy and supportive workforce

Managing a team of people is one of the most challenging – and also rewarding – things that people can do at work. It means you yourself have worked hard to get to a position of influence within a business – or are indeed the boss!

 However, all is not rosy in the garden of UK workplaces, as our new survey shows the average office worker spends more than SIX days a YEAR complaining about their manager or boss.

One in five spending about an hour a day thinking negative thoughts about who is managing them – but do not despair! This seems to be part of a wider picture that shows three quarters of these workers felt their workplace had a culture of moaning and that certain people and situations were catalysts for the whinging to begin.

 It is tempting to think of this kind of behaviour in employees as light-hearted or just annoying, however, there is a serious issue at the heart of this from a wider productivity and bottom line perspective with people who moan regularly about their manager, on average, being paid nearly £700 a year for the privilege.