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According to Forbes, 2018 is the year of the “employee experience.” Since there has been such a focus on employee engagement, employee loyalty and employee retention over the last few years, adding another term into the employee/employer relationship cycle can be confusing.

Employee Engagement has been an ongoing challenge for Human Resources professionals and Company Leaders. But it’s a new year, so the time is right to make employee engagement a priority for your organization. Before you announce your annual initiatives consider employee engagement as not just a program you run as part of a larger initiative, think of it AS the larger initiative.

Happy employees can seem like an aspiration. We are in an employee-focused market: between extravagant office perks and rating tools like Glassdoor, employees have high expectations and are armed with information about employers before they even submit an application.

The Incentive Research Foundation has released their predictions for 2018. This study sets the tone for the incentive market for the coming year and is often a guiding indicator for companies and third party vendors, building 2018 incentive programs for how much to spend and what incentives are trending.

According to a Gallup report, U.S. employee engagement levels stagnated at 33% in 2023. What this means for businesses is a loss of up to 18% in sales productivity and 14% in overall employee productivity.