JUNE - 2022HR TECH OUTLOOK8EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT BEGINS WITH BEING HUMANMaigen Rowe, director of employee experience, AllegionByFor the last 20 years, employee engagement has been a hot topic in the business world. While we know that engaged employees are more productive, more collaborative and deliver better business results, companies have continued to struggle to piece the engagement puzzle together. After reporting record-high global engagement in 2019, Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2021 report detailed a two percent decline, with only 20 percent of the world's employees feeling engaged at work in 2020.THE 2020 ROLLERCOASTERIt's no mystery why the world's employees felt less engaged in 2020 than they did the year before. We were navigating one of the greatest global crises in most of our working lives, and COVID-19 forced many offices to close their doors overnight. Employees were told to work from home--whether their home was conducive to working or not--schools closed, and we scrambled to set up make-shift offices for what we thought would last just a few weeks.When those weeks turned to months, we watched as every news cycle had a different take on health conditions, treatment options, and companies' plans to return to offices (or not). The whole world was on a roller coaster of Maigen Rowe
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