Loving What You Do

Empowering employees breeds much more than positive sentiment. According to Gallup’s 2018 State of the Global Workforce report: A highly engaged workforce leads to 17 percent higher productivity and 21 percent higher profitability. And the benefits don’t stop there. The same report also found that organizations with a highly engaged workforce experience between 24 percent and 59 percent lower turnover. Put simply, creating a better work environment improves employee performance.

By offering employees avenues for greater engagement, companies foster both employee satisfaction and organizational success. These can be small changes, like nurturing positive workplace relationships, or larger efforts that help employees grow both personally and professionally.

America doesn’t have the strongest reputation when it comes to its treatment of working parents. Last year, a report by U.K. organization Expert Market analyzed parents’ average work hours and paternal leave policies. They found that: Across 37 countries, the U.S. ranked at the bottom.

It’s no wonder, then, that companies with more generous attitudes toward things like paid family leave make headlines. Increasingly, American companies are realizing the importance of keeping working parents happy. If they don’t, they just might lose them all together.