{"id":2246,"date":"2010-01-27T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/rudeness-at-work\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T12:35:39","slug":"rudeness-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/rudeness-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudeness At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shine.yahoo.com\/channel\/life\/office-etiquette-essentials-567545\/\" target=\"_blank\">From Shine on Yahoo comes one of those surveys<\/a> that makes me think we are over-surveying (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u202696% of Americans report experiencing rudeness at work, and 48% say they are treated uncivilly at least once a week.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of manners meltdown can have a direct effect on the bottom line. According to surveys conducted by Pearson and her colleagues, 48% of poorly treated employees have intentionally decreased their productivity and 12% say the boorish behavior compelled them to quit.<strong> Workplace rudeness costs employers an average of $50,000 per worker<\/strong>. &#8220;There are very high costs associated with even seemingly inconsequential inconsiderate words and actions,&#8221; adds Pearson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Insert yawn here (maybe that was \u201cboorish behavior\u201d on my part).\u00a0 $50K per worker due to rudeness?\u00a0 Where does that number come from?\u00a0 I have a hard time believing that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Shine on Yahoo comes one of those surveys that makes me think we are over-surveying (emphasis mine): \u202696% of Americans report experiencing rudeness at work, and 48% say they are treated uncivilly at least once a week. This kind of manners meltdown can have a direct effect on the bottom line. According to surveys conducted by Pearson and her colleagues, 48% of poorly treated employees have intentionally decreased their productivity and 12% say the boorish behavior compelled them to quit. Workplace rudeness costs employers an average of $50,000 per worker. &#8220;There are very high costs associated with even seemingly inconsequential inconsiderate words and actions,&#8221; adds Pearson. Insert yawn here&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/rudeness-at-work\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[1508,1509,1507,1510],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Ae","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->