Unnecessary tasks such as sorting files can make employees ill in the long run.
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Berlin/ Dusseldorf Have you ever felt exhausted after a day’s work, even though you actually hadn’t done anything productive? Then you may have done fake work: work that makes the people doing it seem busy, but that does not add any measurable value to you or the company. A phenomenon that bosses should not simply accept.
Fake work has different forms. Anyone who writes lengthy reports that the manager only skims at the end is doing fake work. Likewise, anyone who spends hour after hour in meetings that do not have a clear objective. Anyone who constantly performs several tasks at the same time and does not really concentrate on any of them is also moving in the area of sham work.
Fake work not only costs companies a lot of money – it also makes employees unhappy and, in the worst case, sick. But with a few tricks, she can be banished from everyday work. How? The Handelsblatt asked experts about this.
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