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How Employers Benefit from

Engaging Employees More Effectively

with their careers to make positive changes, employees are fair pay and fair treatment.It’s
employers forced to confront staff shortages no surprise that compensation bears such
may be wondering what they can do to attract significance,as pandemic-related inflation
qualified and talented candidates.Finding ways and global conflicts have led to rising costs on
to engage workers more completely could everything from food to fuel.However,a survey
benefit companies in various ways.A recent poll from the risk management experts at Willis
from Gallup found that companies suffer some Towers Watson found that there’s a disconnect
pretty significant consequences when their between employees and employers in regard
employees are disengaged.Gallup reports that to the importance of fair pay and its relation
such companies suffer from 16 percent lower to workplace stress.Employees consider low
profitability,18 percent lower productivity and pay to be the second greatest source of
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted millions 37 percent lower job growth. workplace stress,while employers indicated
that eight other factors are greater sources
of people to reconsider their careers.That No two workers are the same,so there’s no
reflection has had a profound effect on the magic wand employers can wave that will of such stress for their employees.Employers
concerned about staff dissatisfaction,and the
labor market.Data from the U.S.Department of ensure everyone is suddenly engaged and effects that disengaged employees can have
Labor indicates that 4.5 million people quit their satisfied with their jobs and career prospects.
jobs in the United States in November 2021, However,recognition of what employees value on their bottom lines,can make a concerted
effort to revisit their compensation policies.An
which led to a near record-high number of most could help businesses retain workers overhaul of such policies could be just what
job openings around the end of 2021 and the longer and keep those workers engaged.A companies need to reengage employees and
beginning of 2022. recent survey of 540 full-time employees from improve employee retention,giving businesses
Though the pandemic may have led millions the market insight firm Clutch found that the a significant advantage in an era marked by
of people who were previously dissatisfied most important workplace values for full-time significant turnover in the labor force.

LOOKING FOR A SWEET NEW JOB? Qualities To Look For In A

Post-Retirement Job

The notion of relaxing on a beach all day • Engagement: A job seniors find engaging
in one’s golden years is still a retirement dream also is more likely to provide the types of benefits
for millions of adults across the globe. But many seniors are looking for in post-retirement work. For
individuals also harbor a desire to keep working example, researchers at Boston College’s Sloan
after retiring. Whether it’s a volunteering gig or a Center on Aging and Work found that seniors
part-time job retirees are looking for, certain quali- who find a job or volunteering opportunity truly
ties can make an opportunity uniquely suited to a engaging are more likely to benefit psycholog-
Ongoing Open Roles post-retirement job. ically from those experiences than those whose
post-retirement work is not engaging.If seniors find
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