When the Job Keeps Asking for More

Disclaimer: AI helped me write this because I have a hard time articulating my thoughts. 

Some companies will deny a department the people, pay, flexibility, and tools it needs, then act confused when the work suffers.

They will call remote work a culture problem while ignoring the fact that forcing people into an office does not create trust, connection, or collaboration. Sometimes it just creates commuting, interruptions, and a room full of people pretending everything is fine.

You cannot keep demanding better results while refusing to provide what those results require.

Eventually, the work slows down. Good people stop applying. Tired people stop overperforming. And the employees who once cared deeply begin planning their escape.

Then leadership calls it unexpected.

It wasn’t.

It was preventable. It was communicated. It was ignored.