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Most employees never praised, survey says
Does the boss say thanks? No? Well, you’ve got ample company.
The Associated Press The Salt Lake Tribune
More than half of employees in a recent survey, 55 percent, said they were never or rarely thanked for their efforts. Conversely, 35 percent said they were thanked frequently.
The e-mail poll of 1,002 people also revealed that colleagues are much more likely to say thanks than managers — 84 percent said they express gratitude to a co-worker daily or frequently.
On the other side of the niceties, more than a third of supervisors (34 percent) said they praise at least daily the employees who report directly to them. Thirty-seven percent said they do it weekly, 8 percent praise monthly, and 6 percent conceded they never praise those who report to them.
The survey of supervisors also found that women were more likely to praise their workers than men.
"It’s amazing how much two simple words can mean to an employee," said Rodger Stotz, vice president of Maritz Incentives, a division of St. Louis-based Maritz Inc., which conducts a bimonthly poll of workplace issues. "When the economy improves, employees will have more opportunities, and if companies are not currently rewarding and recognizing their employees they will most certainly be at risk of losing them."
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