Last week I attended a meeting for human resource professionals. The dinner speaker talked about fun in the workplace – an unusual topic given today’s economic climate. The speaker’s examples of workplace fun were along the lines of employee parties, picnics, and catered lunches. As I sat there, I had to wonder, who can think [...]
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“The State of Employee Engagement 2008″ study by Blessingwhite found that information technology (IT) workers are the least engaged of all the different staff areas studied. And, this lack of engagement isn’t isolated to North America. The study noted that IT workers across the world tend to identify more with their profession than with their [...]
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The most disengaged employees in workplaces around the world are those in Gen Y – people born in the early 1980s through the early 1990s. So, we are talking about workers up to age 28. The study was conducted by BlessingWhite and looked at employee engagement levels at companies on four continents. When I stopped [...]
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