Sara Shillinglaw

Most of us want our work to be meaningful. We want to connect with the people we work with, to feel like what we’re doing matters, and to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Good things happen when people are engaged — both for individuals and for organizations. When comparing employee engagement levels, Gallup found that the best-engaged workforces had 81% lower levels of absenteeism, 43% lower levels of turnover, and 23% higher levels of profitability over the lowest-engaged workforces.