Should Leaders Be Worried About Fauxductivity

Or Is There Something Else To Pay Attention To?

So, there is a New “Fad” Word that I have seen making its way around the world of Business.

“Fauxductivity”.

It is meant to represent the idea that Employees are doing things to “Appear” Busy when, in Reality, they are Not Accomplishing Anything.

So it is a Faux (aka False) Productivity.

Now, in the Return-To-Office “Mandates”, this was Cited as one of the “Reasons” to Push Employees Back to the Office.

The Reality based on the “Valid” Research, unsurprisingly, revealed Employees were Equally and often “More” Productive at Home than they were In-Office.

This is one of the Reasons Why Return-To-Office “Mandates” have been Ignored and “Only” Created Problems for Leaders.

When you make Decisions based on “Fears” that are “Not” based in Reality, it is a Recipe for Disaster.

But is “Fauxductivity” a Real Thing?

Well of course it is!

But this Is “Not” a New Phenomenon.

There have “Always” been people who “Fake” Looking Productive.