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Top 100: 20. Employee engagement

August 9, 2011

Unlike employee satisfaction, motivation, culture, climate or opinion, employee engagement is a measurable degree of an employee's positive or negative emotional attachment to his or her job, colleagues and organization which profoundly influences their willingness to learn and perform at work. According to a recent Gallup study on employee engagement, this describes only about 29 percent of U.S. employees (with 54 percent not engaged and 17 percent deemed disengaged). Mental Health Foundation chief executive Dr. Andrew McCulloch estimates that employee disengagement is responsible for 11 million lost working days each year, at an estimated cost of some $350 billion.

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