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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | When I say the words work place environment, where does your mind go? |
0:09.1 | If you're like most people, you might think about an environment like this, or like this. |
0:18.5 | Maybe even something like this. |
0:20.8 | And clear with the closing doors please. |
0:25.0 | What you probably don't think about when I say workplace environment is this. |
0:31.7 | But, if you are one of the roughly 2000 men who play in the National Football League, that's |
0:40.0 | your office. |
0:41.0 | I mean, it's business, like let's not get it wrong, it's business. |
0:44.7 | The NFL Players Association, or NFLPA, is the union that represents the players, and |
0:50.9 | they recently conducted their first ever employee survey about workplace conditions. |
0:56.5 | I would never have thought to ask are there rats in your locker room. |
0:59.8 | And they gave letter grades to each of the league's 32 teams. |
1:03.7 | This is really about, are we giving you the inputs you need to be as productive as possible? |
1:08.8 | The NFL is the richest and most successful sports league in history. |
1:13.3 | Each team is worth at least $4 billion. |
1:17.1 | Nobody wants to be known as the Cheapscape. |
1:19.8 | Before when it was rumored you were the Cheapscape, it was harder to prove now there's data. |
1:25.6 | And what does the data have to say? |
1:29.0 | Among U.S. employees in general, job satisfaction is higher than it's been in decades. |
1:34.5 | How satisfied are NFL players? |
1:38.0 | Now you may be saying to yourself, who cares about the workplace environment of NFL players? |
1:43.2 | They make so much money the environment shouldn't matter. |
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