Stupid decisions, no accountability and windbag bosses — what problems are you facing at work?
We at Blindfeed believe that every team in the world can be better than the sum of their parts. In the process of understanding how we can better help teams around the world create work that matters we’ve created a short (7 questions), fun (gifs included) and anonymous multiple-choice survey (it is still available). Some of the results were quite expected, but some came as a total surprise.
We tried to make the survey as fun and unmandane as possible, that’s why it contained only 7 multiple choice questions and almost all answers were illustrated with gifs (because gifs make everything better). We were mostly interested in the problems (aka bullsh*t) that people face at their workplace, and also their attitude towards company values or guiding principles.
Here’s a short infographics that highlights our key findings:
Some more results:
- most of the respondents describe their work style as ‘looking for more possibilities’ (58%), whereas 25% ‘go with the flow’ and only 17% prefer stability;
- 50% describe their company as cross-functional;
- 33% describe their leader as ‘windbag’, 25% go to ‘experimentator’ and another 25% to ‘visionary’;
- on the question of the problems respondents experience at work (multiple choice was possible), 78% named ‘stupid decisions’, 42% ‘no accountability’, 42% ‘too many emails’, 33% ‘too many meetings’, 25% ‘unreasonable bosses’
- diversity is something that leaves our respondents a bit puzzled: 50% are not sure if it is the issue in their company (they do not measure it), 42% evaluate it as ‘great’ in their company and 0 said that diversity is overblown (isn’t it reassuring?);
- company values proved to be the most controversial subject: although 75% agree that they are important, there’s a completely equal spread between people who ‘can cite their company values’, ‘have some idea about them’ and ‘have no idea about them’ (33% each).
The results prove that it’s time to think about your company values (in case you haven’t yet) as well as to make them more understandable. Apparently employees also want a voice in the decision making process, as well as the clear understanding of the responsibility areas of everyone in the company.
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