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An alarming 60% of employees reportedly feel disengaged from their workplace \u2013 amid companies struggling to form a post-pandemic work culture which is fit for a hybrid world.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to findings from Robert Walters, the UK is facing a disengagement crisis with almost half of white-collar workers claiming that their workplace has become unrecognisable in the past 12 months \u2013 with high staff turnover (54%), fewer people coming into the office (49%) and a decline in team socials (43%) being the main drivers.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alongside the above, a gloomy economic outlook (32%) and the appeal of moving abroad (28%) is causing employees to disconnect from the workplace \u2013 investing less of themselves and opting to simply \u2018get their head down\u2019 and \u2018the work done.\u2019\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was somewhat surprised to see the findings from our research \u2013 especially given the investment made by employers into workplace culture over the past three to five years, as well as the more recent focus on luring workers back into the office,\u201d said Toby Fowlston, CEO of Robert Walters. <\/strong>\u201cWhat is apparent here is the traditional tactics used to build a lively, inclusive and social workplace culture are simply not cutting it. The hybrid working world and subsequent decline in office attendance is having a detrimental impact on employee engagement and companies must act fast to keep employees engaged and attract the best professionals.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n High price to pay\u202f<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Perkbox\u202festimates that disengaged employees cost the UK economy over \u00a3340 billion every year in lost training and recruitment costs, sick days, productivity, creativity and innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The research also reveals that a disengaged employee costs an estimated fifth of their annual salary. For example, one unengaged worker on an average salary of \u00a335,000 will cost a business \u00a37,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Counter-offers rife<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n With the tightest labour market seen in over a decade, employers are nervous about losing employees and offering disengaged employees pay hikes to retain them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, it has been a record summer of\u202fmid-year salary increases\u202ffor white-collar professionals \u2013 with almost a third reporting that they received either a 5-10% pay increase or a spot bonus up to \u00a31,000 \u2013 according to a poll from Robert Walters.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDespite many employers giving midyear pay reviews to increase engagement and retention, this is a short-term remedy,\u201d added Fowlston, \u201cMuch greater focus needs to be given to the wider topic of employee engagement \u2013 which should no longer be considered as a \u2018buzz word\u2019 or an intangible, immeasurable HR concept that is a \u2018nice to have.\u2019\u202fEmployee engagement is a key driver of motivation, commitment and productivity in the workplace \u2013 in a business sense employers need to appreciate that it does impact the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An alarming 60% of employees reportedly feel disengaged from their workplace \u2013 amid companies struggling to form a post-pandemic work culture which is fit for a hybrid world.\u202f According to findings from Robert Walters, the UK is facing a disengagement crisis with almost half of white-collar workers claiming that their workplace has become unrecognisable in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":79851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6617,93],"tags":[8,6852,11587,5006],"class_list":["post-79832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-top-stories","tag-europe","tag-research","tag-robert-walters","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79849,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832\/revisions\/79849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}