Many people select a career path or graduate degree early in life… perhaps before they’ve even gotten to know themselves. Generally speaking, what impact might that have on our work lives?

With the recent health pandemic, business leaders asked themselves, “How can I practically engage a dispersed team?” The answer - if you’re looking to have a “breakthrough moment” with your team - is to first check yourself by considering these questions.

Sometimes I just want to post a short video on this blog and shout "HEY, A VIDEO I LIKE!" but I don't think my boss will let me get away with so little context (or shouting at our customers), so here are some words to go with (*softly and politely*) a short video I like.

Since 2013, Officevibe has been collecting answers from approximately 50,000 respondents in over 1,000 companies and 150 countries, culminating in one of the biggest datasets on employee engagement in the world. 

In the past, we've written about the common drivers of employee engagement. Here we look at four of the less obvious reasons why staff might be disengaged, supported by research. 

Below is a simple and fun diagram that we first developed in 2013 to help explain what engagement looks like and, in particular, how it differs from the likes of employee satisfaction as there is often confusion between the two terms.

For all that has been written about employee engagement, you would think that finding a list of popular definitions by the prominent players wouldn’t be too hard to find. Yet, there isn’t one.

High-frequency trading company "Optiver" has been revealed as Australia's top workplace in the 2013 Best Places To Work study.