The rate of 71% of North American workers that are not actively engaged in their work should be a wake-up call to every supervisor and safety person. Turn on the specialty TV channels like The Food Network and Home and Garden TV and you will see a steady parade of experts hosting renovation or restaurant-turnaround fix-it shows. In every one of these programs are several common denominators: people who don’t care about much people who are apathetic and don’t buy-in to their job people who have lost their passion for the work they do and are simply going through the motions people who don’t take pride in their work and think “good enough” is good enough.
