Work has been defined in many ways over the years: a contract, a transaction, a value exchange. This led to describing humans as capital and designing systems of management that treat people like financial assets. Is it any wonder that employees’ feeling of engagement within these organizations continues to drop? It doesn’t feel good to be treated like an investment to be maximized.
To reverse this trend requires that we understand what work is for employees, a relationship, and a critically important one. Research has shown us that employees crave the same things from work that they do from other important relationships in their lives: appreciation, connection, acceptance, communication, and support. In this session, we will explore how viewing the employee work experience through the lens of a relationship will focus your employee engagement efforts for greater impact.
3. Jason Lauritsen
Keynote Speaker, Author, and Advisor
Former Corporate Human Resources
Executive
Led the Best Places to Work team at
Quantum Workplace
Co-author of the book, Social Gravity:
Harnessing the Natural Laws of
Relationships
www.jasonlauritsen.com
To provide a little context for how I ended up here talking to you about love today requires a little background.
For those of you who may not know Quantum Workplace, we have an employee feedback platform our clients use to make their workplaces better ever day. Specifically we known for our employee engagement survey science and technology. In addition to our client work, we also use this platform to power nearly 50 best places to work programs across the US where we are the research partner. We collect well over a half million employee survey responses each year through this program. That means we get to peek inside over 5,000 companies each year to see what’s happening within their culture.
Each spring we publish a trends report of what we discovered in this data during the past year. You can go download this year’s version from our website at Quantumworkplace.com if you’d like to give it a look.
Each year, we uncover some interesting trends and insights. But, each year, some things remain consistent.