Estimates are that companies are spending around one BILLION dollars a year on improving “employee engagement”. It’s the new “thing”, the new management fad that is sucking money out of corporate budgets that could be going into concrete improvements for employees, and training of managers to be….well, good managers.
Here’s a selection of graphic images that make salient points about these failures.
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