Keep Your Plumbers Engaged

Disengaged employees are a lot like clogged pipes: They don’t work very well. And if national surveys are correct, your workforce probably needs a powerful bit of water jetting, metaphorically speaking. Before you launch into an impassioned hey-my-workforce-isn’t-like-that protest, let’s consider the facts as outlined by a recent Gallup poll: Only 30 percent of employees in the United States are engaged at work, meaning they’re committed to their jobs and are positively contributing to the organizations for which they work. That leaves 70 percent of employees disengaged. Even worse, the survey shows 18 percent of them are what’s known as actively disengaged,