income, benefits, friends, reputation, and sometimes even family.

When they lost their jobs, they lost everything, ... income, benefits, friends, reputation, and sometimes even family. Their years of work didn't deliver what they thought the organization had promised. They'd had an unwritten social compact with their employer that if they did their job well, they could keep it until retirement.

The Robinson family was one of the original settling families in South Kingstown. The Bowers, who have always been friends of the Land Trust, approached us about two or three years ago to discuss the options for the farm.

The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

It's about fairness, ... not being unmotivated. Issues of fairness such as not being treated with respect, being talked to in a condescending way -- these are the things that really bother people at work. Instead of having motivational speakers or worrying about psychological issues of, 'How do we make everybody feel good?' I say the fundamental grounds for making people feel good is treating them well.

Very often, companies try to get these quick highs instead of fixing the more fundamental questions of fairness and being treated with respect,