How much is employee disengagement costing your business?

Here's how to turn that disconnect into a collaborative culture

BY Jodi Walters 28 Sep 2022

In a remote world, how much does disengagement cost your business? A free whitepaper published by HRD in partnership with Humanforce explains the cost of not addressing the root cause of disengagement and gives tips on how to assess disengagement in your deskless workforce and how you can turn it around.

Download the full FREE whitepaper here: Employee disengagement

It costs money, time, and resources to get the right people into your organisations so losing employees because they’re disengaged is the ultimate waste for a business, but a recent survey conducted by Gallup found that only 20% of New Zealand and Australia’s workforce was engaged.

According to Gallup, there is three categories of worker

Engaged – highly involved in and enthusiastic about the workplace
Actively disengaged – miserable work experiences and spreaders of unhappiness
In between – do their job but don’t go above and beyond and have less enthusiasm about fulfilling their duties.

Factors that motivate and engage employees have changed. In the past employees were motivated by things like their paycheck, job satisfaction, or their annual review but future employees are more motivated by purpose, development and coaching and an emphasis on their life.

Many of these things – like a sense of purpose – can’t be bundled into a perks and benefits package; they must be communicated and regularly reinforced by an engaging manager that can focus on performance management essentials, understanding an employee’s aspirations and feelings about work and ensuring the communication channels are always open.