Swing and a miss for industrialised appreciation in the workplace

Trust thought for today - You do have to laugh at this - "Small acts of appreciation can delight employees. But they are not meant to be industrialised".

Who knew! But I think useful to add to my bullshit listing - hilarious that they could think such insincere manipulative behaviour would work. But I think I need a new category.

"Industrialising appreciation misses the point completely. Automated birthday and work-anniversary congratulations are about as personal as an invoice. Platforms on which peers publicly recognise the hard work of others are liable to encourage performative displays of praise. That is especially likely if every compliment shows up on an analytics dashboard for the boss; one employee-engagement firm tracks shows of gratitude and breaks these “recognition occasions” into a series of ghastly categories like “Owning the Results” and “Building Trust Like a Family”.

Found here