Bangkok Post
Commitment is ink, not henna: what makes it last?
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Walk down almost any market street in Bangkok and someone will offer to paint a tattoo on your arm in under ten minutes. It looks convincing for about a week, fades a little more with every shower, and is gone before your next paycheque.
Key facts
- Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report puts global employee engagement at just 20%, the second consecutive annual decline, and estimates the cost of that disengagement to the world economy at roughly $10 trillion — about 9%
- Pew Research recently found that 32% of American adults now carry at least one tattoo — and, more tellingly, only 24% of them have ever regretted the decision
- Walk down almost any market street in Bangkok and someone will offer to paint a tattoo on your arm in under ten minutes
- A real tattoo asks something different of you: it has to be chosen once, under permanent conditions, and lived with afterwards.
- Gallup’s own meta-analysis of business units worldwide, built on decades of data, finds that those in the top quartile of engagement outperform the bottom quartile by 23% in profitability
Summary
A real tattoo asks something different of you: it has to be chosen once, under permanent conditions, and lived with afterwards.
Pew Research recently found that 32% of American adults now carry at least one tattoo — and, more tellingly, only 24% of them have ever regretted the decision. An irreversible choice, made in a small room with a stranger holding a needle, produces regret three times less often than the average corporate town hall produces a genuine “Yes”.