Daily stock speculation is drawing in a new section of society that is inexperienced in financial prospecting. People are becoming armchair stockbrokers with little foresight or knowledge. This is becoming a serious issue. And the craze isn’t just hitting those with a little extra disposable income with which to play around. It’s even affecting low-wage employees and students, men and women alike.
This awkward and sudden interest is clearly having an influence on our different daily activities in general, least of all is employee productivity. Many private and public sector workers have found a new diversion from their responsibilities: checking on the status of their investments on the Internet or at nearby banks.
Employees with Internet connections are constantly in front of screens even if they are in the middle of a meeting or a conference. If you find a person attending a meeting with his attention focused on his cell phone, chances are he’s linked up to his stock portfolio. You can read it in his face, sometimes contorted with gloom and confusion.
Talk about a messy, unhealthy work environment. Employees obsessed with the stock market are ruining their careers. Work has lost its priority in their agendas, especially those winning extra incomes by playing stocks. Stocks are what matter now; accomplishing work tasks is pointless.
This is a dangerous situation that is affecting productivity, which feeds our countries’ economy and capital. Whoever is busy chasing stocks will never find time to work enthusiastically.
The stock market has influenced most of our lives’ details. We can see people on TV and in newspapers running continuous gossip about it.
People must stop and think twice concerning this irrational phenomenon. We have to prioritize our key interests, family demands and work duties before getting involved into something that might kill our productivity and therefore our economy.
