State of Employee Engagement 2019 – WeSpire

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WeSpire’s 2019 State of Employee Engagement Report studied employees’ perspectives on their organisation’s employee engagement strategies, programs offered and the effectiveness of these approaches. More than 1,700 employees were surveyed to gather the data for this report.

Main findings from this report include:

  • More than half of employees are currently considering to change their jobs. Among this, 68% of millennials and gen Z admitted to having been searching for new jobs, while 56% of older generations recorded doing the same.
  • Most of employees said that they would prefer working for a company that has a positive organisational purpose. 42% of respondents claimed that their organization has an official employee engagement program, while 31% of them didn’t think so and 27% of them couldn’t be sure. 68% of people who are working at organizations that have an official engagement process believed their work is making a positive impact, 62% of people who are working at organizations that don’t have an official engagement process also had the same belief.
  • While HR professionals believed that there were at least 3.3 engagement programs offered to employees at their organization, employees believed they only had access to 2.6 programs. 63% of employees who work in HR reported that their organization had an official employee engagement process, but only 42% of other employees thought the same.
  • If organizations had official employee engagement strategies in place, employees would be 16% more likely to recommend their employers. They would also be 50% more likely to regard their organizations as a good place to work if employers recognized their work more effectively.
  • Only 25% of employees believed that their organization had been communicating employee engagement strategies effectively. More than half of the respondents said that they would prefer to get information about employee engagement process via emails and newsletter. Other popular communication methods include communication from direct managers or supervisors, from friends or colleagues and signs in the building.
  • 37% of respondents reported that their organization offers diversity and inclusion programs, 8% higher than in 2018.
  • Sustainability and well-being are the most popular programs desired by employees at organizations that provide employee engagement strategy. Sustainability is the most popular program among millennials.
  • When asked about the reason why they would not participate in employee engagement programs, employees identified lack of time as the most common reason, followed by lack of knowledge of the opportunities to participate.
  • On a scale of 0-10, 47% of employees rated their organization’s recognition frequency higher than 5. 53% of male employees reported having been praised at work while only 47% of female staff believed so.
  • Almost half of the surveyed employees would choose gift cards as their preferred rewards but a majority of them would be interested in receiving prosocial incentives. Among the most common prosocial rewards, classes and other educational opportunities were rated as the most popular incentive.

Full report here.