JANUARY 2017HR TECH OUTLOOK6As the nature of work is transforming within the workplace, employee engagement is becoming a key HR objective across organizations in the digital era. Apart from having the "sense of well-being," an engaged workforce is committed to fulfilling organizational goals and values, and perform better. By 2020, Gartner predicts that 20 percent of organizations will include employee engagement improvement as a shared performance objective for HR and IT groups. This calls for a modernized approach to establish a connected and engaged workforce. The key to this approach lies with digitization, which is bringing efficiency in autonomous decision making, work-life balance, and growth opportunities. Evidently, SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud) is shaping the future of employee engagement programs and tools. Primarily, it helps employees to easily collaborate and connect across the organization, despite the job role, time and location. Complementing the SMAC-enabled tools, companies are leveraging technologies like intranets and instant messaging for enhanced collaboration and gamification features into training and business processes to improve engagement, boost productivity and lift operational performance. It makes repetitive tasks interesting and helps employees improve their skill sets, while generating continuous feedback on their performance. With a positive impact on productivity and organizational health, technology-enabled employee engagement solutions can gather data from various touch points and combine them in different ways to monitor transactions, processes, and employee behaviors. This will eventually help HR professionals to generate employee insights and provide direction to create organizational value and gain competitive advantage. Organizations need to go through various phases before achieving the connected workforce maturity. To help companies reach this goal, we present to you the top 10 Employee Engagement Solution Providers 2017. We hope this information will help you successfully transform your workforce and maximize productivity. Let us know your thoughts. Engaging a Connected WorkforceHanna WilsonManaging Editoreditor@hrtechoutlook.comAaron PierceAlex D'Souza Eileen SinghJem Elizabeth Kyle Summers Sarah FernandesEditor's NoteJANUARY - 2017Employee Engagement SpecialMailing AddressValleyMedia, Inc.44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:+1 (510) 509-1655 HR TECH OUTLOOKJanuary - 2017, Volume 03, Issue 02 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to HR Tech OutlookVisit www.hrtechoutlook.com Managing EditorHanna WilsonEditorial StaffSalesVisualizersShanell Jones Fred Winterfred@hrtechoutlook.comT:+1 (510) 565-7627Copyright © 2017 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.
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