[nysauhem]

I think this statistic is neither surprising nor problematic. Would you really expect more than 36% of the workforce to be frequently deserving of recognition? The job of management is not to give lip-service praise to all their employees.

[msbarnett]

I disagree -- if an employee is providing an indispensable contribution to the company, you need to be recognizing and praising them, or sooner or later they are going to stop contributing at a high level or jump to another opportunity.

And if an employee isn't providing an indispensable contribution, why are you still employing them? If 64% of your workforce isn't providing any value worth recognizing, your workforce is far too large.

[mmt]

Personally, I'm surprised that the 64% number is so low.

My calling, system administration, is definitely one where, the better I do my job, the less visible my work is, but it's easy to forget this is not the case for everyone else.

[nck4222]

Isn't this basically the "grade students to produce a bell curve" vs "if a students produces A quality work, they get an A" argument?

[mcknz]

How much you want to bet that on average, 36% of the employees for any given company is engaged in new business/sales/pre-sales?