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Whether you’re an advocate of full-time in-office work or complete flexibility, we can all agree that decreasing employee engagement is a profit killer. A recent survey by McKinsey reveals the staggering cost of disengagement. A mid-size S&P 500 company risks losing between $228 million and $355 million annually due to low engagement. Over a span of five years, this sums up to a potential loss of $1.1 billion per company.
The forced RTO mandates in recent months have been a key driver of worker disengagement. Gallup research shows that employees who work exclusively remote or hybrid both have 37% engagement, compared to those who work exclusively on-site, of whom 29% are engaged.
For both McKinsey and Gallup, the data shows that the recent forced RTO mandates and its accompanying inflexibility drive down worker engagement. No wonder that so many companies have come to regret top-down RTO.
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to spray the fruit with organic chemicals to protect against caterpillar infestations. Finally, this year, we covered the young pawpaw fruit with fruit bags. Now, even though squirrels still damage some of the fruit, we’re getting the large majority. It’s been a long journey, but a worthwhile one. Yesterday, I gathered over 20 ripe pawpaw fruits in one day, and we still have more coming. It’s delightful to see the literal fruits of our labor in abundance, after all this time and effort. It’s a good lesson that it often takes several iterations over many years to fix problems and challenges in how we do things, with fixes uncovering new problems and requiring new interventions. Still, the effort might well prove worth it in the end.
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