Editor's Note

When it comes to job satisfaction, what matters to you the most? Financial rewards? Work-life balance? Flexible working hours? All these definitely matters, however, feeling part of a team and being valued and appreciated consistently results in happiness and job contentment more than any other factors, according to studies. In brief, employee engagement is crucial for employee retention.

To Retain Employees, Treat Them Like People

Employee retention is crucial to a company’s growth. The cost of turnover is high -- a May 2016 report from Gallup estimates that turnover from millennials alone costs the U.S. economy $30.5 billion each year. Imagine the cost of all the turnover impacting the workforce.

Seven Reasons To Take Succession Planning Seriously

As an HR leader, you understand the challenges that hiring the right talent for your organization involves.To minimize these challenges, it pays to have a well-planned approach to succession planning to manage ongoing changes in the workforce—especially the unexpected ones.

Insights Into Employee Aggression: How to defuse it?

We all want smooth workplace experiences. The type where everyone has the information they need and works well with everyone else to get the job done. But real-life workplaces feature employees with conflicting personalities, imperfect communication skills, and external pressures from financial or medical issues. If left unchecked, these stressors can surface as employee aggression in the workplace.

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Meet The Young Generations: Four takeaways from the BridgeWorks 3G report

For the BridgeWorks 3G Report, we surveyed over 3,000 Millennials and Gen Edgers and supplemented our research with focus groups and interviews. We slaved over the data to pull apart the differences and similarities and assemble four overarching takeaways from the report.

Why Your Best Talent is Leaving?: 4 ways to win them back

Most leaders of companies today recognize the importance of having engaged people at work. Yet research from the Metrus Institute, Gallup, and others say that between 50 and 80% are not fully engaged. For many organizations, a majority of employees are only partially engaged, which a lot of research has shown reduces performance and customer satisfaction while increasing turnover. Worse yet, your best talent—those with lots of options—are most likely to leave.

The Mandate For Innovation: Preparing for the next generation workforce

What does innovation look like to the next generation of workers? Individuals entering the workforce in the next five to ten years will interact on a new level from previous generations. Involved with an expanding global community, they recognize no difference between physical and virtual interactions. For this reason, they prefer to communicate through technology, such as social media, video chats and online forums. A recent survey from the Pew Research Center shows that 94 percent of teens who go online using a mobile device do so daily. Results from the same survey show teens use multiple social platforms and 71 percent use more than one social media site (May 13, 2016).

Own The Ugly: 4 real conversations that build trust in your workplace

You’ve likely heard these findings from the 2016 Edelman Trust Barometeror from other sources that validate their findings. Perhaps you sense it where you work. After all, you’re the conduit between leadership’s vision and the people tasked with fulfilling that vision. When trust breaks down in your organization, you’re often the first to know -- and the first expected to “do something” about it.

Millennials Are Quitting: How to make them stay

Millennials aren’t aliens that are completely different from the other humans. The factors for which they stay in jobs or choose to leave jobs aren’t so different from the other generations. But retaining Millennials has become a hot topic among employers because not only are they the largest generation in the workforce, but they’re also more likely to leave their jobs than their older co-workers—they will bold with less provocation.