The major objective and main content of the policy which our Party consistently implements involves creating for the worker the most pleasant surroundings for work, study, and leisure, in order to develop and utilize his abilities to the fullest.Leonid BrezhnevIn recent years, Soviet officials and scholars have expressed increasing concern
about the "lack of discipline" among industrial workers in the USSR. Labor
productivity remains low, and it is improving at an unacceptably slow pace. At
the same time, "shirking," "idling," on-the-job drunkenness, and industrial accidents
are widespread. But the most troublesome manifestation of the Soviet
worker's lack of discipline is the high rate of labor turnover.
Labor Turnover in the Soviet Union
