employee engagement in the work-anywhere era

Employee Engagement in the Work-Anywhere EraKeeping Pace With Your Mobile Millennial Workforce

Companies in the top quartile for employee engagement had: 22% higher profitability than the bottom quartile 10% higher customer ratings 28% less theft 48% fewer safety incidents

Employee engagement has a massive impact on company health and success.

If your workforce isn’t interested or engaged in their work, your business is likely to lose money. Disengaged employees cost U.S. businesses

$450 to $550 billion last year.(Gallup: State of the American Workplace)

It’s a huge and g r o wing problem. The average tenure of an employee in the U.S. is now only 1.5 years(Bureau of Labor Statistics)

No wonder companies plan to double investments on engagement tools in 2015.

Companies will spend an additional

$1.5B on engagement in 2015

Some companies are focusing on the brick-and-mortar workplace, spending $billions to create physical “engagement spaces.”

A few have gone to extremes to bring employees together:

Yahoo! ended its work-from-home policy

Zappos makes employees enter its headquarters through one door

But the focus on physical proximity is missing the point...

For today’s employees, and especially millennials, the workplace is no longer a physical location.

Work takes place anywhere and everywhere.

Companies need to engage employees on their own terms, and give them the flexibility to be as connected and productive in their work lives as they are in their personal lives.

That means providing a digital workplace that brings employees together, keeps them engaged, informed and motivated – and gives them a sense of shared purpose and ownership.

What makes a great digital workplace?

In many ways, it has the best qualities of the physical spaces that it supplements or replaces.

It’s a place people enjoy and like to visit...

Where they gather, cross paths, share and make discoveries...

Where they have real conversations—and workflow really flows...

Where collaboration takes place in the open, so everyone learns from each other, stays on the same page and has a stake in the outcome...

And unlike physical spaces, time and distance no longer matter. Every device is a doorway, and every screen is a desk.

Everybody can work how and where they work best. Ideas happen. Innovations happen. Engagement happens.

A great digital workspace doesn’t just help colleagues connect and communicate with each other.

It also provides a powerful new way for companies to communicate with employees.

Corporate communications and HR departments can reach out to employees directly, knowing their audience is engaged and paying attention.

Instead of talking at workers, leadership can talk with them, building understanding and getting buy-in on company vision and strategy.

Metrics can even be used to show who’s listening, how they’re responding and how well the message is getting through.

A new generation of communication and collaboration tools is making this possible. Visit http://jive.to/every-screen-is-a-desk and learn how to unlock your company’s full potential with a digital workplace.

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