, just about one-third of U.S. employees are engaged on the job. That number drops to 13% worldwide, and has held steady for years. Many companies are investing heavily to identify what leads to high engagement in order to motivate employees, thereby increasing their happiness and productivity.
Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive. The lack of good productivity metrics for most knowledge worker functions makes it difficult to quantify output at an individual level, so we turned to our Microsoft Workplace Analytics product, which uses de-identified calendar and email data to look for a relationship between inputs and engagement.
For the most part, this correlation suggests that the way they measured employee engagement translated at least in part into how much time and energy employees were willing to put into the job. However, when we looked at employees working extremely long hours , engagement scores dropped off rapidly, which is likely an indication of overwork, so high engagement will only take one so far.At the second company, the data told a different story.
Not working long hours with a low engagement score. Their low engagement scores could indicate that these folks are also at risk of leaving, but their low working hours suggests that losing some of these people might not be a bad outcome for the company.
Sorry, being productive should not be based on how many hours a week people work. Surely we know by now that longer hours are not productive.
This is a bizarre article. Why should how long your working hours have any relation to how engaged you are? Only on the USA
Excellent read!My team happily working during this weekend from hotel to manage our customers critical deliverables. No micromanagement, no monitoring. It's a culture built by giving them freedom to manage their them,coach them they will do a fantasti job
Excellent read!My team happily working during this weekend from hotel to manage our customers critical deliverables. No micromanagement, no monitoring. It's a culture built by giving them freedom to manage their them,coach them they will do a fantasti job
Yess completely agree