Rewarding the Wrong Things

In Japan there are policies being considered to force employees and companies in making leave plans so that staff have to take time off. As the name of this blog suggests, Japanese are killing themselves due to being overworked.

In the O3 environment, there is a method of rewarding and punishing that essentially moves the workplace into one that encourages negative thoughts... As a recent comic strip depicted, a worker had an annual appraisal coming up and was excited at the prospect of a good to great report since he worked late many nights and took less than half his alloted leave days. During the meeting, the boss frowns at the worker and says," Your performance is miserable! You were late twice for five minutes this year!".

How's that for appreciation eh? In my company's O3 environment that is almost what happens, except (if you read my previous blogs) they punish lateness with fines on the spot and ignore any other forms of staying late nights.

Go O3!!!