Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Mikado Holdings, Nana Dr. Michael Agyekum Addo, says the religious attitudes of Ghanaians is negatively affecting Ghana’s workforce.

According to him, employees have taken to investing their time and energies into pursuing church activities hoping for spiritual favours while their jobs are left undone, thus affecting productivity.

He noted especially now that prosperity messages are the order of the day, Ghana’s productivity is deeply affected.

“The prosperity message is also destroying our workforce. Now it’s about prayer time, morning devotion takes about one hour, evening devotion is another hour, two hours out of the eight are already gone. And then Monday all the way through Saturday, they close earlier to go for prayer meetings because he belongs to a prayer warrior team.

“My friend, it’s destroying us. Tell the National Development Planning Commission man that if he doesn’t address our religious attitude, it’s going to destroy this country,” he said on JoyNews’ PM Express Business Edition.

He added that undue pressures from homes are also contributing to this phenomenon.

Explaining, he said, “The home is also another pressure on the graduate, on his salary and I keep telling my employees that you came for the interview yourself, you didn’t come with your mother, your friends, your siblings, your father who has to be fed and so on and so forth.

“You came for the interview alone and the discussions on your salary and working conditions was on your own self so to us your 2,500, your 3,000 is enough for your level. Meanwhile the mouths that are feeding [on] this 3,000 are so huge, so many that it becomes so little within three months he’s asking for more.

“Then he goes to church then the pastor assures him that a year by now you’ll be dangling your car keys or your own house, where’s he going to get that money. So they come back on Monday and steal your business, your time, your money, your efforts, productivity is low and then within a year he’s putting up that building. Every Sunday he goes to church and says we should pray for forgiveness and Monday he starts his hanky-panky attitude at work.”