There's never anything good that will come out of cutting costs at the expense of employee morale, as commenter u/QuantomField points out. If you're willing to blatantly state to your workers that you care more about a couple of pennies than you do about them, you need to be prepared for all bets to be off.
Accountants never take the human aspect of the workplace into consideration, and when they're budgeting and balancing, they always (and actually just take for granted) the obvious fact that if you take care of someone, they're going to take care of you. As in, workers will often do everything they can to save costs for an employer who appreciates their work and treats them well, but if an employer is exploitative and doesn't see their workers as people, then the workers are going to maliciously comply with any rule that is changed and any expenditure that is allowed. They'll still color inside the lines, but they will color to the line.
Redditor u/TheMilkJug shared this brilliant story of doing precisely that to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit. See screenshots below.
Like what you see? Follow our WhatsApp channel for more.
Stay up to date by following us on Facebook!
