# Leaves Employees Heading for the Door

### What is Mushroom Management?

**A management style where employees fly blind to company performance and are given work without knowing its purpose.**

**Geckoboard and Censuswide surveyed 2000 employees of businesses in the UK and US to find out more about “Mushroom Management”.**

### The Scale of the Problem

**Only 1 in 10 employees are aware of company Over 4 in 5 employees want bosses to share** **progress in real-time more information about the business**

### The Impact of ‘Mushroom Management’

**EMPLOYEES HEAD FOR THE DOOR** **1 in 4 employees have, or know someone who has, left a company because they were flying** **blind to company performance and direction.** **MISTRUST** **More than three quarters of employees don’t trust bosses who fail to share company data.** **A PERCEPTION OF POWER GAMES** **Over a quarter of employees believe a lack of information stems from bosses playing power games.** **DETECTIVE WORK** **Greater than half of employees resort to their own detective work to discover what’s really going on in their company.**

### The Solution

**of employees say that company information being shared had a significant positive impact on their contribution to overall company performance.**

### said they would rather hear bad company news than be left in the dark.

### MEASURE SHARE DIGEST

### What gets measured gets done. Make data available all the time. Make data understandable.