Overly polite employees costing businesses cash

Four in five managers believe that overly polite employees are costing their organisation money, new research has shown.

The survey from webexpenses found 78% of office-based managers believed that employees acting too polite could cost businesses money.

When asked if they were too polite when managing difficult situations at work, nearly two thirds of respondents (63.6%) said that they were.

In addition, as many as 22% of managers said that they have not challenged the people they manage about taking too long on their lunch break.  A further 21% said they hadn’t challenged people over coming to work late.