03/13/2025

Why So Many Employee-appreciation Efforts Feel Phony

Here’s how to show your team their work is appreciated

One of the wonderful things about watching AppleTV’s "Severance" is seeing the variety of "employee appreciation events" they throw. Each one worse than the last, but they provide wonderful satire of the flat attempts many companies make to demonstrate to their employees that they are valued.

The truth is employee appreciation is not shown by any event.

It turns out that if you want the people who work in an organization to feel appreciated, you need to show that they are respected and valued every day. Managers should not wait for special occasions to say nice things about their employees' performance. Instead, leaders need to be looking for chances to compliment excellence, effort and improvement all the time.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Fast Company.