Why bother engaging?

Engagement might be widely backed up by research but how can you know what motivates your employees if you don't know the level of engagement of your employees?

“A happy worker is a productive worker.” We all know the saying, and it is backed up by mountains of research which proves that an engaged workforce delivers enhanced organisational performance.

Recently, an independent survey commissioned by MidlandHR found that 92 per cent of companies agreed that employee engagement is important, showing that firms recognise engagement as a strategic objective in its own right.

Contrast this with another statistic from the research, which showed that 49 per cent of the business leaders questioned do not understand the level of engagement within their organisation. The discrepancy can be explained by a general lack of awareness, or perhaps the perception that employee engagement is difficult to measure. The latter is an outdated point of view, as advances in HR software have made an even stronger case for engagement with modern solutions and metrics making data easier to collect and interpret than ever before.