Employees and job applicants alike are keeping close tabs on the kind of management and environment they are and aren't willing to
Monster polled more than 6,000 workers to discover what they consider to be the biggest "red flags" at work — actions, practices or behaviors that create
"Based on the data, it's clear workers crave independence, and above all trust, from their employers," says Monster's chief strategy officer, Scott Blumsack. "Managers who spend too much time 'helicopter managing' or utilizing a 'my way or the highway' approach will find themselves in a constant state of employee turnover."
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More than half of employees sited meetings that could have been emails, inflexible work schedules and mandatory assignments during the interview process as workplace behaviors that set them off, according to Monster's survey. Also in the top qualifiers are status reports or meetings, as well as team bonding exercises. All of this lends itself to a bigger workplace trend, according to Blumsack.
"Overwhelmingly, the biggest workplace 'red flag,' or concern, is micromanagement," he says. "In order to combat this, managers should look for ways to learn from their workers, utilizing their collective expertise and experience to improve output and overall workplace success."
For example, Monster also polled some of employees' "green flags," which included positive actions, behaviors or offerings in the workplace, as well as their "beige flags" — behaviors or actions that are considered neutral — for comparison.
See what other behaviors on Monster's poll made employees' list of red flags.
