You can’t keep morale up with pizza alone. People want to feel like their work actually mattered.

Food and perks are pleasant, but they do not answer the question people are actually asking, which is whether any of this mattered. Morale comes mostly from seeing that your effort landed somewhere and that somebody noticed it was yours. Treats stand in for that and fool nobody for long.

This week, tell one person what their work specifically changed, with the detail left in. Not a general well done, but the actual thing. If you cannot name what it changed, that is worth knowing too.