Firms host events as engaged employees lead to bigger profits

Rita de Brún talks to industry experts about the lengths that US and Irish companies are going to promote staff engagement

Ireland can learn from US firms when it comes to employee engagement. One recent study found that employees who are either not engaged or actively disengaged cost the world $7.8 trillion in lost productivity

The sound of silence. For some it’s bliss. For others hell. But in the workplace, quiet can mean trouble’s brewing. Quiet firing on the part of bosses who demoralise workers into resigning. Quiet quitting on the part of staff intending to flee.

Nobody envies the quiet quitters or the constructively dismissed. But we all know them, and they tend to have one thing in common:They’re unlikely to be engaged in the workplace.