War on Bad Bosses » The high cost of Bad Bosses http://blog.bosstrenz.com Ross Reck and Harry Paul are Declaring War on Bad Bosses! Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:14:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 © info@connert.com () info@connert.com() Ross Reck and Harry Paul are Declaring War on Bad Bosses! info@connert.com No no http://blog.bosstrenz.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg War on Bad Bosses http://blog.bosstrenz.com 144 144 Bad Bosses Cause a Huge Drain on the American Economy http://blog.bosstrenz.com/bad-bosses-cause-a-huge-drain-on-the-american-economy/ http://blog.bosstrenz.com/bad-bosses-cause-a-huge-drain-on-the-american-economy/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:12:24 +0000 Ross Reck http://blog.bosstrenz.com/?p=326 When employees feel abused, mistreated or unappreciated by their boss, they either look for a job somewhere else or they retaliate by cutting back on their productivity.  Researchers have estimated that  the cost of employee turnover alone  in America to be $1.7 trillion annually.  Then, if you factor in the other things employees are motivated to do when they feel their boss is not treating them right such as taking more sick days, missing work more often, stealing from the company, doing as little work as possible and a poorer quality of work, convincing other employees not to work as hard and refusing to share their ideas on how to improve products and services, we’re probably looking at a four to five trillion dollar price tag for this Bad Boss behavior.  This is huge especially give that the size of the entire American economy is only $14 trillion.  Just think of the shot in the arm it would be to our economy if American business could recover a sizeable chunk of this amount.  If you know of a Bad Boss that you’d like to rehabilitate, go to www.bosstrenz.com and use our Bad Boss Tagging program.

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