{"id":43943,"date":"2025-09-26T06:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T06:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:21:07","slug":"optics-over-impact-are-employers-rewarding-the-wrong-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43943\/","title":{"rendered":"Optics over impact: Are employers rewarding the wrong behaviour?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim Mobley, President of Connext Global, warned that “outdated benchmarks” are holding back achievements in workplaces.<\/p>\n

“Employees are frustrated with being judged on rituals and want recognition for the impact they create,” Mobley said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stop rewarding optics<\/p>\n

Addressing the productivity theatre among employees will require employers to stop rewarding optics over outcomes, according to the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“That means replacing ‘always on’ availability with clear, outcome-based goals, trading performative busyness for real execution, and holding leaders to consistent standards instead of moving targets,” the report read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Mobley, President of Connext Global, warned that “outdated benchmarks” are holding back achievements in workplaces. “Employees are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1144,111,43,139,69,16129,38986],"class_list":["post-43943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-human-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-office-return","tag-visibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}