Stephanie Reuss’ Post

Nice article on the connection between declining employee engagement and productivity Euan Black. Keen to hear your thoughts on today's The Australian Financial Review Workplace update on the big issue and what employers should do about it. Do you agree? "The big issue | It’s far from a crisis, but employee engagement data from Qualtrics shows that five key measures tracking the experience of Australian workers has fallen over the past year. Steve Bennetts, head of growth and strategy at Qualtrics, said this was partly because the economic slowdown had pushed employers to announce redundancies and encouraged others to introduce return-to-office mandates that required workers to attend the office more than they would like. The impact | It’s meant that, for many employees, their experience of work is getting worse. The trend is particularly pronounced among new starters, many of whom found that the reality of their new jobs failed to live up to the sales pitch. And Bennetts argues that employers must address the issue if they want to lift their productivity. What should employers do about it? | Stephanie Reuss and Victoria Stuart, co-founders and co-chief executives of work design platform Beamible, argue it essentially comes down to eliminating low-value tasks and enabling employees to spend more of their time on work that energises them and has the greatest impact. They say companies that do this work not only make their employees happier and more engaged, but they also get a major productivity boost." https://lnkd.in/gK6y8TGF