PARKLAND, Fla., July 25, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Tired of endless board meetings, monotonous reports and life inside a padded cube? So are 74% of all employees, who say they feel detached from the workplace. According to authors Everton J. Weeks and Andrea T. Hurteau, disengaged employees will go through the motions, doing just enough to squeeze by, but will never reach anything near their true potential. The nation suffers from "Quitting On The Job," or Q.O.T.J., a virus spreading throughout corporate America, but the authors have the cure in their new book, I Quit ... But I'm Still on Your Payroll (now available through 1stBooks).
According to authors Weeks and Hurteau, Q.O.T.J. is costing corporate America as much as $355 billion dollars annually. In the authors' opinions, many people have already "quit on the job," and the symptoms are very noticeable.
"The symptoms of a Q.O.T.J. infected company include poor morale, an under employed workplace, lay-offs, downsizing, flat growth, employee sabotage, lost of competitive edge in the market, high stress, employee resentment ... low productivity and more," the authors write.
I Quit ... But I'm Still on Your Payroll takes the reader on a foray into the everyday madness of the workplace. The authors show the readers how they got there and split open and examine the system that creates it, inspiring hope and providing fundamentals. With self-tests for employees and the corporation, the book will tell readers over a 30-minute quiz if they suffer from Q.O.T.J. and how they can cure it. Corporations will be able to isolate where it exists in the company and eliminate it. Also, the authors examine the 10 key areas to success and score the strengths and weaknesses of each company.
"I Quit ... But I'm Still on Your Payroll is not a book about lazy employees or incompetent management teams. Rather it's ... about balancing the system called the workplace. It's a road map, for both employer and employee, to make productivity and having fun ... their favorite hobby," the authors note.
Weeks is a successful business executive and president of his own management consulting and new revenue development firm. Hurteau has been a dedicated administrative professional for 17 years. After meeting at Gannett in Rochester, N.Y., their strong desire to help people find workplace success led them to write I Quit ... But I'm Still on Your Payroll, their first book.
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