If you hold a conference
and state that
wearing a mask is optional,
people who want to
wear a mask
will get pressured by
people who don’t wear a mask
to discard their masks.
If you tell your employees
that coming in
on the weekend is optional,
folks who don’t want
to come in on the weekend
will pressure others
not to come in.
This is basic human behavior.
We are lazy.
We want to do
the bare minimum
and, to ease our guilt
about that,
we want others to do
the bare minimum also.
When you state something
is optional,
it isn’t truly optional.
Peer pressure will ensure
the majority of people
do
the bare minimum.