WorkLife April 2017 | Page 32

PROMOTING FINANCIAL WELLNESS THE FINANCIAL COST OF EMPLOYEE DISENGAGEMENT More and more companies are beginning to see the value in investing in their team, and are reaping the rewards of a motivated workforce. Hannah Sims investigates why it pays to engage. The term ‘employee engagement’ has, for a long time, been considered a fluffy HR concept – intangible, difficult to measure, and not worth investing time and resources in. But that is quickly changing: engagement is becoming more and more widely accepted as a key driver of motivation, commitment and productivity in the workplace, and the link between an engaged workfor