Treat your customers as good as your employees or else…
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The life of an employee. The majority of the workforce still falls in this category despite the rapid growth of entrepreneurship. I suppose that being an employee is not only the easiest way to make money, but it is the most familiar way for all of us.
Many people do not put much thought into it. Many people settle for the life of an employee because they share the same end goal of making enough money to sustain an adequate lifestyle.
Some people love it while the growing majority dreads it. Do not take my word for it. Below are some statistics derived from multiple sources, including surveys from the Society for Human Resources Management, Gallup, Deloitte, and Saba Software.
- 40% of companies are reporting loss of personnel as a top concern
- 51% of American managers care very little about their work
- 44% of millennials will leave their employer within two years
- 36% of employees do not believe that their employer offers a clear career path
Fortunately, there are corporations who are offering employees a better company culture. Several young companies understand the importance of employee satisfaction. However, there are not enough businesses who truly understand its importance. This problem has sparked many people to join the “Fight for $15” crowds.
The majority of employees hates their jobs and have often become victims of depression.
I do feel their frustration, especially the employees that live in expensive cities. How can a father provide for his family if he is only making $9 an hour living in San Francisco or Los Angeles?
While I do support a minimum wage increase in ridiculously expensive cities, I am more in favor of showing the endless possibilities to employees that desire to be a freelancer, sole proprietor, or business owner.
There is still the belief that being self-employed is too risky. Can we be honest and admit that there is risk in everything? In fact, you probably put yourself in situations that are riskier than losing your job.
Did you know that you are more likely to be reduced to part-time or even terminated than being a victim of a car accident?
Fortune Magazine has discovered that the official unemployment rate is very misleading. In fact, it is much higher. The unemployed population is significantly higher than last year’s number of car accident victims.
Are you still not convinced?
The percentage of unemployed Americans is even significantly higher than suicide and cancer victims. So, the reality is that you are much more likely to become unemployed than to be suicidal, diagnosed with cancer, or a victim of a car accident.
Overall, my mission is to help people reach the finish line in their careers. My intention is to help people, even if they choose paths that I believe are not the best for them.
There is no doubt that unfair wages are a partial result of most American managers caring very little about their job. Moreover, millennials are destined not to make the same mistakes as their parents. Almost half of millennials refuse to remain loyal to their employer, which is also partially due to unfair wages.
Employees do have options. They can choose to hire a law firm like Sawaya Law, who specializes in employment law. However, many do not exercise such options. Perhaps, they feel that it is too much of a burden.
I had my fair share of work experiences with many employers, big and small. All of those experiences have taught me the same lesson. Nothing is better than your own freedom. I enjoy running a business because I am in full control.
We cannot control everything in our lives, but we can focus on things that are within our control. Why not be in control of your career by becoming a sole proprietor or business owner?
Does being the big boss empower or frighten you?
It feels good to take vacations while your business continues to generate income. It feels good to know that you do not answer to anyone but yourself. It feels better to pay a lot less taxes as an employer than paying more taxes as an employee.
Those are some of the many benefits of being an employer.
Is it risk to being an employer? Of course. There is risk in anything. Although, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
As an employer, I constantly remind myself of a philosophy that I learned in the book, Raving Fans. Treat your customers as good as your employees. Otherwise, you will always be looking for new employees.
Every now and then, I am offered to work on certain projects for Fortune 500 or Inc. 5000 companies. At this point of my life, I often decline most of those projects to reserve that time in fulfilling my mission.
While I do maintain a few of those relationships, I constantly remind myself that the company needs to treat me as well as their clients. Otherwise, my services are better served elsewhere.
Entrepreneurship remains my priority. I suggest that you make it your priority too.
Job cuts are on the rise. So, why not be the employer that creates jobs instead of worrying about your employer cutting your job?
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As stated in the article, there are corporations that offer a better company culture for their employees, but that number is simply not high enough.
Perhaps, if the executive team cared more about the wellbeing of their managers, it would deter their managers from developing a selfish attitude towards their subordinates.
Employees do want to get paid well, but they also care about something else just as equally – their workplace wellbeing.
It is why millennials do not remain loyal to employers and managers are just hanging in there until they can find a better job elsewhere.
Lower ranking managers take their cue from upper managers in how to treat their employees. During the last 36 years, middle managers and future upcoming managers were being cut from the companies and how CEOs are complaining that there is a shortage of middle managers/upper managers when it was their own fault for creating the mess in the first place.
If companies would invest in their people and not treat them as peons, then losing employees would not be a major concern with them. Then again, society seems to put the CEOs on the pedestal plus the CEOs have this Southern plantation/Robber Barron attitude that anyone (except themselves) can be replaced which is probably why many companies don’t offer a clear career path. Many managers are disengaged from their jobs because they have no loyalty to the company and to the employees. It is all about me, me, me. They will stay until they find a better job somewhere else.… Read more »