Motivation Matters: How to Improve Your Company's Overall Employee Engagement
What is it that keeps your employees coming back to work each day? Is it their paychecks, flexible work schedules, or an opportunity to grow within the firm? Employees today are looking for more than just a 9 to 5 job, they want to be excited about their workplace, involved in their work, and create relationships with their colleagues. Companies often miss the core related issues in employee engagement because they assume engagement is linked solely to compensation. At the end of the day, whether you are an employee or a customer, people want to be recognized and appreciated, they want to build connections, they want to be a part of something bigger than themselves, and this is how it can be done.
The other day, a few of us from the Marketing Eye team were at a client meeting and they mentioned that they buy all of their employees an ipad for Christmas.
You should have seen my employees faces! They were green with envy. It was as if they had all been given ferraris.
I thought to myself, "that's really cool" but not for a second did I think that they received something worth more than what my employees in Atlanta received. Perception is an unbelievable thing and more and more, companies are being encouraged to "buy" their employees happiness.
Many new age companies, with venture-backed operations offer:
