The Employee Engagement Crisis

The Corporate Leadership Council has identified four cost-effective solutions to combat the decline in employee engagement that has resulted in a 3-5% reduction in employee productivity

The economic crisis has taken a toll across the workforce. The combination of widespread layoffs, reduced compensation, limited career opportunities, and organizational restructurings have challenged employees’ commitment levels.  The Council has surveyed over 500,000 employees to measure their employee engagement levels since 2004.  Those levels were largely consistent, until the start of the economic downturn.  Before the downturn, roughly 1 in 10 employees was highly disengaged, that number increased to in 1 in 5 at the end of 2008, and the preliminary data from the first quarter of 2009 is that the number has increased to 1 in 3. 

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