67% of employees are not engaged with their company
This is according to Gallup's most recent survey of U.S. employee engagement, where "employees in the U.S. continued to feel more detached from their employers, with less clear expectations, lower levels of satisfaction with their organization, and less connection to its mission or purpose, than they did four years ago." In fact, these employee engagement numbers are the lowest we've seen in a decade. If your organization falls within this category, this means that the majority of your organization is either punching in the clock or negatively impacting morale and teamsmanship in underlying, quantifiable ways. The silver lining is that you have cadre of employees who are motivated and you can improve these numbers.
Employee engagement defines how connected and committed employees are to their company
The pandemic disrupted how employees and teams connect. As a long lasting consequence of the pandemic and these trends, commitment levels between the employee and employer and even between employee and employee have changed. Work has become more transactional and less about relationship building. Simultaneously, commitment shifted from the workplace back to the home as family well-being and self-care became priorities. Measuring how engaged employees are and improving that engagement has been widely accepted to be the most constructive way to achieve symbiosis between employer and employee. Historically, this has been subjectively measured through periodic employee surveys requiring time and effort from management and employees.
Employee engagement correlates directly to company performance
When disengaged companies and employees are compared to their engaged counterparts, the differences are substantial:
- 12X more likely to leave their jobs
- 15% lower customer retention
- 59% lower customer retention
- 18% less productive
- 41% higher absenteeism
- 2.5X less innovative
Employee engagement must factor into key organizational decisions
Institutionalizing the measurement of employee engagement is a key aspect of evaluating organizational change (ex. return-to-office mandates) and the downstream impacts on departments, teams, and individuals. A few reasons why this is more important now than ever before...
- Employee engagement has not been this low since 2015 and are not close to recovering from a pre-pandemic peak (Gallup).
- Employee disengagement is the highest it’s been in over a decade, also steadily increasing since the pandemic (Gallup).
- The number of employees open to leaving their current job is at its highest level in 8 years (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
When asked about the Amazon RTO mandate, Mike Hopkins, a senior vice president, offered a vague response, saying that he had no data either way on whether mandating in-office work made people more productive, but that executives believe Amazon's workers do their best work when they're together (Business Insider).
Managers who ignore a data-driven approach to measuring employee impact see the error of their ways
- 80% of bosses would have taken a starkly different approach to their return-to-office plans if they had a better grasp of their workplace data.
- 54% of managers had to forgo making a critical decision about the workplace because they lacked the requisite data to support it.
- Without supporting workplace data, nearly 25% of managers admit to making decisions based on “gut instinct” alone.
- 57% of bosses said if they had better access to data, they could better measure the success of their in-office policies.
- Envoy
Workasa automates the insight you need to maximize employee engagement
Gain direct visibility into your company’s employee engagement and collaboration trend using the proprietary Workasa Employee Engagement and Collaboration Index (WEECI). Opt in to compare your company performance with peers across industry segments, company size, and work mode (on-site, hybrid, remote).
How it works
Workasa analyzes data from your productivity suites and evaluates meaningful interactions within that data to calculate the WEECI. Complementary analytics also provide management insights into employee onboarding performance, team execution, peer to peer engagement spontaneity, employee retention, and employee offboarding performance.
Get started
- We work with you to perform a historical data export of your productivity and HRM stacks (Google, Slack, Office 365, etc.)
- Then you execute Workasa's sanitization program to anonymize employee identities and all company specific content.
- Once you audit the results of the anonymization, upload the data into your Workasa account.
- Workasa produces a customized WEECI analysis package for your company.
Cost
A one time, comprehensive WEECI analysis of your company is completely free. At your discretion, you can contribute your anonymized data to the community database which will then provide you with access to complementary industry benchmarks.
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