Employee Engagement: Nothing “Professional” About It – Everything’s “Personal”
A comprehensive study on employee engagement, done by Dale Carnegie, shows a whopping $11 Billion is lost annually in the US alone due to employee turnover. It’s a no brainer that people leave a company if they are not engaged with it. Extrapolating the same thought, the best employers are those which have the highest employee engagement. A very detailed analysis done by Aon Hewitt in the report titled 2015 Trends in Global Employee Engagement shows that the best employers have close to 100% more Total Shareholder Return (TSR) than those with average employee engagement. A similar study done by Dale Carnegie shows companies with engaged employees in the US outperform those without by more than 200%. Various surveys done by the likes of Gallup, Dale Carnegie, Aon Hewitt point to a very dim fact that close to 80% of employees globally (75% in the US) are not fully engaged. What could then amaze anyone is why don’t the companies do something to improve on their employee engag