Employee engagement reflects how committed and connected employees are with their company.
Engaged employees work harder, work smarter, and stay with their companies longer.
Companies with high employee engagement are more profitable, innovative, and customer focused.
This selection of articles will help you learn more.
- Increase Productivity at the Lowest Possible Cost (Gallup)
- What Is Employee Engagement and How Do You Improve It? (Gallup)
- U.S. Employee Engagement Drops for First Year in a Decade (Gallup)
- It’s Time to Reimagine Employee Retention (Harvard Business Review)
- Silicon Valley techies get free food and dazzling offices, but they're not very loyal - here's how long the average employee stays at the biggest tech companies (Business Insider)
- The last nine reported months (April through December) have seen the largest exodus of employees on record. (Bureau of Labor and Statistics)
- Recent data reports that only 65% of people plan to stay with their employer in 2022, down 5% from 2021. (Qualtrics)
- Young employees are losing out ‘on a lot’ by not going to the office, business experts say (Multiple citings)
- Remote work caused the share of collaboration time employees spent with cross-group connections to drop by about 25% of the pre-pandemic level. Analysis of an aggregated 122 billion email interactions and 2.3 billion meeting interactions in Microsoft Teams and Outlook across industries and countries around the world (Microsoft and Adelman)
- Organizational structures are stagnating since existing employees are adding fewer new collaborators and shedding fewer existing ones (Nature)
- They don’t get to “live the culture” of the company…results in being 20% less likely to acknowledge company values. (TinyPulse)
- Big Tech is suffering from a ‘Great Resignation’ of workers, who say ‘It’s a good time to leave’ (Robert Half International Survey)
- ...people working full time at home spent 37% less time collaborating than before the pandemic. (Gensler)
- The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers (Microsoft and Nature)
- Per Dunbar's number: Why we can only maintain 150 relationships (BBC)
- As a result [teams not in sync], 13% of time is spent duplicating work. (Asana Anatomy of Work)
- 9.3 hours per week, on average are spent searching and gathering information. (McKinsey)
- Of the remote workers who felt less creative while working from home during the pandemic, 46% cited less face time with their team as a reason, 44% said they felt like they were working in a bubble and didn’t know what their colleagues were doing, and 40% said it was harder to collaborate with their team on calls. (Lucidspark and Method Research)
- We are slowly losing the social glue that holds us together. (Harvard Business Review)
- Updated highlight list of “Every Company Going Remote Permanently” (build remote)