Employee engagement is good for work

How do organisations foster a better work culture? Some may say better communication between employer and employee, improved numeration or maybe even a workplace gym. However, one of the key drivers for indicating a good workplace culture has to be active employee engagement.

There are many benefits which can be derived through employee engagement. These include the following.

• Improved team performance – individual engagement leads to team engagement which then drives subsequent individual and team performance.
• Increased employee productivity – an engaged employee is likely to spend more time on attention to detail and produce higher quality work, avoiding rework and inefficiencies.
• Hit your objectives – a more engaged workforce tends to be a more informed workforce. Having a greater involvement and awareness of organisation goals and objectives makes their delivery easier.
• Reduced workplace stress – being more engaged, you’re more likely to detect and prevent issues such as stress much earlier and before they reach crisis point.
• Reduced burnout risk – as mentioned in the point above, by preventing individuals reaching crisis point, symptoms like burnout can also be prevented.
• Absenteeism is reduced – when workloads become too much something has to give. Sadly, this is usually absenteeism which can be reduced by greater engagement and knowing the various pain or break points.
• Presenteeism reduced too – although largely invisible, the impact of presenteeism can be huge in an organisation. Through engagement, organisations can take the lead and be proactive.
• Improvements in retention – employee engagement ensures organisations have a clear understanding on job satisfaction, a major decider for individuals on whether to stay or go in a workplace.
• Greater employee advocacy – by having a highly satisfied, well retained and productive workforce, like with anything, positivity spreads. Through employee engagement, employees can be the brand ambassador for the organisation, at no extra cost.
• Recruitment process improves – following on the advocacy piece, happy employees share good news and this could be through reviews on Glassdoor for example. This could be a great recruitment tool for an organisation.

At Spark, we aim to provide both individuals and organisations with all the tools and insights they need to ensure employee engagement is optimised within the workplace. Below are the simple steps both employee and employer can take, to take advantage of this.

Employees login to the Spark app

They create a post as they normally do

To use the employee engagement functionality, the user will commence a sentence with *Start if they wish to let their employer know what new initiative they’re interested in, *Continue to suggest they continue with something already in place and *Stop to cease something in the organisation

The user selects No against publishing to the public Spark Wall and ensuring anonymity

The employer receives employee engagement feedback through a dedicated insights page in their monthly Spark report pack

At Spark, we help individuals improve their health and wellbeing. Through our data-driven insights engine, we also provide organisations with intel on how to reduce presenteeism, absenteeism and attrition. Contact us to find out more.

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