The Blueprint for Employee Engagement

Maintaining a strong company culture is a challenge for most leaders. When times are tough, maintaining that culture takes even more work. Layoffs, missed quotas and slashed budgets test employees’ resolve.

Let’s face it, while employees want flexibility and the opportunity to work from home, it makes maintaining a strong culture harder.

A recent Gallup poll showed the following:

The poll found that roughly 20% of workers globally reported feeling lonely, angry, or sad on a daily basis. And 41% on average say they feel stress.

Those most likely to say they feel lonely were younger workers (22%), employees who worked remotely full-time (25%) and those who felt most disengaged on the job (31%).

Let’s gloss over the part where 59% of those polled don’t feel stress at work.? Nearly 1 in 3 remote workers being disengaged is a terrifying number. But it isn’t surprising.

We’ve discussed this a lot internally. We are remote. We are also in an industry that has seen a lot of ups and downs over the last 4 years. I’m fairly confident that if I polled our employees, just about everyone would say they’ve felt stressed at work. The 59% in the Gallup survey aren’t recruiters or salespeople.

There have been more downs than ups over the last 18 months. That wears on everyone. We gathered employee feedback via Engagement Surveys and 360s. While our NPS score was considered “good,” it was also down 30% from two years prior.

?We’ve worked hard to address these challenges. We launched a social committee in Q2. Employee recognition programs and Hirewell Olympics are low-cost initiatives that our social committee (ie EmGoor and friends) launched that have gone a long way.

This is still a work in progress for us. Every leader needs to be thinking about this and ensuring that maintaining a strong culture and engaging employees is top of mind. We’ve seen a steady improvement in hiring over the last 4 months.? As that happens, you can be sure the 31% who are disengaged will start looking for new jobs.

Looking for more ideas?? Check out this video from Emily and Ryan! Got ideas that have worked for your company?? I’d love to hear them!

Join Ryan Brown and Emily Goor as they delve into the significance of workplace culture in today’s episode of The Hirewell Update. They discuss the impact of a positive workplace culture on employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention, sharing insights from Hirewell’s internal initiatives like 360 surveys, the Hirewell Olympics, and weekly employee recognitions. Learn actionable steps to improve workplace culture and foster meaningful employee engagement.

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- Matt Founder, CEO - Hirewell