Why the Extra Touch is So Important

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People who are helpful in a workplace get rewarded somehow (even if it's just receiving gratitude from whoever helped them). People who are rude, unhelpful, or who act as if a workplace is more akin to a silly high school clique (and not a JOB) are clearly lucky they even have the job.
Post recession, everything is changing. Companies do not have to put up with unhelpful and rude gaggles of gossips; replacements are lined up waiting for a new job to replace one they got laid off from.
It's a buyer's market.
Hopefully, this should translate to a nicer workforce. And it's about time, too.

Angie Koutrotsios of IL 2:53AM December 20, 2009

between people who graciously go out of their way in life to help peers or underlings and the example above where one aide simply put more effort in an assigned work task than the other aide did---impressing the boss more.
Both concepts have their own kind of merit, but they're two different subjects.

Muser of NM 1:47PM December 18, 2009