Recession-driven layoffs are hurting not only the unemployed, but those workers who remain to shoulder their responsibilities. According to the recent “Productivity Drain” survey from Chelmsford, Mass.-based Workforce Institute at Kronos Inc. and Harris Interactive, 40 percent of workers whose companies have had layoffs said productivity within their organizations has been negatively impacted during the past year.
Thirty-eight percent of respondents said layoffs had occurred at their companies over the past year, according to the survey.
Among employees who said productivity had been negatively impacted by layoffs:
• 66 percent said morale has suffered on the job and people are less motivated
• 64 percent said there is too much work and not enough people to do it
• 37 percent believe the wrong people were laid off, leading to inefficient coverage of some departments
• 36 percent said organizations need to take a “fresh” look at redistributing workloads among the people who are left at work.