Want to keep your employees? Try a little humanity on the job. Yeah, it’s that pesky human element — never mind the data or the technology — that can be key to employees actually feeling as if they’re part of something rather than just cogs in a machine.
According to a study from IBM’s Smarter Workforce Institute and Globoforce’s WorkHuman Research Institute, employees that experience a higher level of humanity at work tend to perform better, and are less likely to quit their jobs.
The study, “The Employee Experience Index: A new global measure of a human workplace and its impact,” surveyed 23,000 employees in 45 countries. It explores what creates a more human employee experience in the workplace, and recommends best practices for how organizations can become more human themselves.
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