--- title: The Negative Impacts of Low Morale on a Company description: There are many negative consequences of low company morale that creates costs to the company. These costs can be both tangible and intangible, and it is important to understand and identify how it is affecting your company. image: http://design-assets.hubspot.com/hubfs/Stratus/clouds-2.jpg --- [![vast.png](https://blog.localgamespot.com/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4087/img/vast.png "vast.png")](http://alilienfeld.com) # Default HubSpot Blog ## [The Negative Impacts of Low Morale on a Company](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/the-negative-impacts-of-low-morale-on-a-company) ** Feb 13, 2019 2:28:43 AM / by [Ali Lilienfeld](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/author/ali-lilienfeld) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Companies focus on high efficiency and cutting costs. On lesser known cost to a business is low company morale. One of the biggest costs of low company morale is that it leads to high turnover rate of employees costing companies in both time and money to train new employees and interview for open roles. Going through the interview process takes a lot of time away from managers to make sure that they have a great fit for the role. Apart from the time that managers invest in hiring, there is also the cost of training the new hire into the specifics of the role at your company. This is both a monetary cost and a time cost that cannot be reduced without risk of lower quality work due to lack of proper training. These are all huge costs to companies that can stem from low company morale. Another intangible cost is in the lower productivity that comes with low team morale. That means that while people do not necessarily leave the company because they are unhappy, but instead they do not work as hard and have reduced quality of work. Identifying the costs of the decreased morale is an important first step to making changes to improve morale. Below are some ways to help improve morale. There are things that can be done! The top ways to improve morale are as follows: 1. Celebrate the victories 2. You guessed it... Team bonding activities 3. Office parties 4. Remembering that your employees are humans too 5. Employing feedback To find out more about the pros and cons of the top ways to improve morale [click here](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/the-negative-impacts-of-low-company-morale).     [![Click Here to download your e-book on team bonding](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/5410810/59fe1f66-636a-4552-b872-898c6f8c443f.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/5410810/59fe1f66-636a-4552-b872-898c6f8c443f)   Topics: [Tag test](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/topic/tag-test), [Multiple Tags](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/topic/multiple-tags) #### Written by [Ali Lilienfeld](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/author/ali-lilienfeld) ### Subscribe to Email Updates - Recent - Popular - Categories ### Lists by Topic - [Tag test (5)](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/tag/tag-test) - [Multiple Tags (3)](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/tag/multiple-tags) - [Insider (2)](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/tag/insider) ### Posts by Topic - [Tag test (5)](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/tag/tag-test) - [Multiple Tags (3)](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/tag/multiple-tags) - [Insider (2)](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/tag/insider) ### Recent Posts # About Us Use this little footer to reinforce your message about who you are and why people love working with you. And since this is a global module, you only have to edit it once to make the changes across every page it appears on. [Learn More](https://www.hubspot.com) # Links # Contact Us ** [yourname@company.com](mailto:yourname@company.com) ** 25 First Street Cambridge, MA Copyright 2026 | Designed with ** by [HubSpot](https://www.hubspot.com) [**](https://blog.localgamespot.com/blog/the-negative-impacts-of-low-morale-on-a-company#)