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Appreciation
3 stories about appreciation - what is happening, and what to do about it.
Fortune · yesterday
A CEO gave his employees Fridays off. Three years later, revenue is up about 160%
The part to copy is not the day off, it is the rule that protects it: no manager takes more than seven clients, and when they get close the firm hires instead of stretching people. A shorter week without a cap on the work is the same week, compressed. What the story cannot show is how much of the growth the schedule caused, and the CEO says so himself.
Gallup · 12 days ago
U.S. Employee Engagement Below 30% for First Time in 15 Years
The headline is the 29%, but the two lines worth a manager's attention are smaller: fewer people strongly agree they know what is expected of them, and fewer feel someone at work cares about them as a person. Both are things a team lead can change this month, with no budget, and both had already fallen furthest over five years.
Fair Play Talks · 9 October 2026
One in Three CEOs Now Describe Their Own Workplace Culture as Toxic, Reveals Research
The people running the company now agree with the people working in it: a third of chief executives call their own culture toxic, and two in five employees do. Agreeing on the diagnosis is the easy half. The same study found executives in toxic cultures about twice as likely to report strong growth - the number that lets a board decide the treatment can wait.