How to Get Your Employees to Stop Job Hunting

Posted: July 17, 2012

[caption id="attachment_10361" align="alignright" width="275"]Image from http://mashable.com/2012/07/10/employee-engagement/[/caption]If your employees don't seem to be as productive as they should be, follow these simple steps to get employees excited about working for your company.

Engaged employees generate an average of between one quarter, to one third more profits for their companies. Fantastic, right? But here’s the question: Are most of your employees really engaged?

If you answered yes, chances are you’re dead wrong. According to one eye-opening study, fewer than one third of all employees can be classified as actively engaged at work. Put another way, some industry statistics show that 66% of employees are disengaged and 60% are actively looking for work.

This rampant disengagement or semi-engagement hits where it hurts — your bottom line. As HR.com writer David Bator put it, since you pay a disengaged employee 100% of their salary for 50% effort, if we assume that the average salary of an employee in a 500 person organization is $50,000, then the annual cost of disengagement for that company is over $8M, or $34,200 per day.

So what can companies do to reverse this trend? Sure, positive employee recognition is a great way to make people feel empowered, and by extension more engaged. But a party or a gift basket will only deliver a temporary jolt of enthusiasm and won’t do much at all for the greater dynamic of your organization.

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Biz Tip submitted by Tammy Sapp, director of communications for Kalkomey