According to a significant amount of research, we are facing a huge trust crisis at work. There are many reasons: economic shifts causing layoffs, the persistent use of non-employee labor to save money, increases in automation, bad bosses, you name it! The average employee reality has certainly changed.
Employees work longer. Bosses take on a slippery slope of ever widening responsibilities. Organizations are forced to try to do more with less. As a result, people slip into safety mode. They look out for themselves. They do the minimum. Trust erodes.
