Employee Engagement

Open office floor plans are effective when they keep in mind human nature and employees' needs.

What the whole world wants is a good job, and we are failing to deliver it.

Recent research has uncovered workplace trends that demand leaders' focus and innovative strategies sooner rather than later.

Managers need to have more frequent, ongoing conversations with employees. But too many managers aren't up to the task.

City governments battling everything from falling revenues to rising citizen demands should view every employee as a key to success.

On the eve of National Teacher Day, few teachers say they have received recent praise and recognition -- a problem that persists but can be fixed.

Two forces have disrupted what is traditionally called "performance management" -- changing it to "performance development."

Great cultures are loaded with star team leaders who create new customers.

Employee engagement among workers who identified as Democrats fell after the election, but has now returned to where it was.

Winners of Gallup's Great Workplace Award, now in its 11th year, achieve performance excellence through their cultures of engagement.

Merely measuring workers' contentment and catering to their wants often fails to improve business outcomes.

The growing trend toward employees working remotely poses new and urgent challenges for managers.

Companies need to make specific efforts to connect with and engage employees who work at home 100% of the time.

Whether remote workers are actually engaged in their jobs depends on how much time they spend out of the office.

The trend of employees working remotely continues to grow and is on the upswing across many industries.

Practicing engagement every day allows teams to accomplish more, be more efficient and have better outcomes in their everyday work. This directly improves sales and customer engagement, among other measures.