It turns out that beyond its feel-good appeal and buzz-worthiness, employee engagement is changing the world of work as we know it. Let’s take a look at four ways employee engagement impacts our work lives and productivity.

1. Engagement helps companies win talent

Over the last two years, creating a workplace culture where people feel connected to their colleagues and the company’s mission, vision, and values has become top priority for employers and their people. This is because of the skills shortage companies are facing now, combined with the rapidly evolving expectations of their best and brightest talent. As a result, companies that prioritize a culture of active, continuous engagement are much more likely to increase their value and keep and attract top talent.

Keeping your workforce engaged is critical, especially with so many people working from home in fully remote or hybrid work structures. But how? You can pool together your people’s mutual interests and hobbies. This can help you create online clubs and digital hangouts where your teams can bond, have fun, and keep engagement levels high. It’s also the perfect time and place to engage your people and bring them together in one virtual space. And guess what? Engagement and employee retention both increase when your people experience a combination of work and play.

2. Engagement creates happier workplaces

It may surprise you, but most people don’t leave their jobs in search of a higher salary. According to research we conducted with Fiverr, people are leaving their jobs in search of more flexibility over anything else.

In today’s economy, productivity relies on the unique genius of highly skilled professionals who refuse to let companies treat them like cogs in a machine. Sure, fair compensation matters—but it’s not what fuels top talent in the modern workforce. An engaged company—one where team leaders recognize, acknowledge, and reward the efforts of their people—goes a long way towards boosting people’s sense of workplace satisfaction.

Take advantage of tech tools that call your people out for a job well done. Sending a Shoutout or a company-wide Kudos blast that acknowledges your people for their hard work and accomplishments is proven to increase engagement, whether your people are working on-site or remotely.

3. Engagement is forcing HR to leverage technology like never before

Engagement depends on people’s connections with each other. In today’s world of dispersed teams, human connection relies increasingly on connectivity through tech. With an increasing number of people working remotely, HR teams are embracing different kinds of tech to boost collaboration and overall connectivity in a world that demands more flexibility than ever.

HR teams that dive deep into KPIs, employee experience platforms, and other tech tools lead engagement-driven companies. HR can quickly test new ideas and engagement activities with people data to see what’s working and what isn’t.

Integrated collaboration tools are the perfect way to keep your people connected and communicating. For example, HiBob’s integrations with Slack, MS Teams, and other communication platforms make transparency possible, increasing engagement rates and improving collaborative project workflows.

4. Engagement is erasing the 8-hour workday

Companies considered anyone who dutifully completed a set of predefined tasks productive in the past. But for modern companies to thrive, they need knowledge workers who excel in critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity to devise novel solutions. However, research shows that the eight-hour workday reduces people’s productivity and prevents them from getting into that all-important creative flow. So if longer hours don’t matter, what does? Engagement. Truly engaged team members are allowed to innovate, take creative risks, and are encouraged to exercise their brains with deep learning while at work.

To keep your people engaged, whether they’re remote or at the office, be flexible with your home-office hours, and understand that everyone works at their own pace and on their own schedule. Instead, implement deep learning by assigning to-dos and projects that require your people to get creative at any hour of the night—or morning.

Account for the bigger picture: measure engagement vs. disengagement

Most companies understand the advantages that come with an engaged workforce. Yet the disengagement epidemic persists and adversely affects the bottom line to the tune of $8.1 trillion in lost productivity. What’s holding many companies back is a myopic focus on measuring engagement. But that’s only the first step. 

To catalyze the creation of a more motivated workforce, improving engagement should be top of mind. And, companies that take that extra step, from just gauging to serious action, are finding that engagement is having a profoundly positive impact on their world of work.

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Focused on delivering its HR tech suite to modern, mid-sized multi-location businesses, HiBob expands in Benelux and the Nordics following rapid client growth in the region.

12 October 7, 2021, Amsterdam  –  HiBob – the company behind ‘bob’, the HR platform that is changing the work experience for fast-growing, mid-sized businesses and their employees opens European headquarters in Amsterdam.  After years of success in Benelux and the Nordics, HiBob is opening this office in commitment to expansion in the region and supporting existing customer growth. As the world of work has changed drastically over the last year and a half, organizations recognizing the need for a flexible and agile HR platform have turned to HiBob to improve  the entire employee experience

In light of HiBob’s success and momentum in the region, the company is expanding its sales, presales, and customer support teams in a new office at the Weesperstraat in Amsterdam. The office will be led by the Sales Director for Benelux and the Nordics, Yoss Perl, who joined HiBob last year. His goal is to expand the Benelux and Nordics team within a year to support existing customers such as Happy Socks and Ace & Tate while expanding to support new fast-growing, mid-sized businesses in the region.

Bob is a modern and flexible HR platform that gives HR and leadership greater oversight and visibility to the business, provides managers with access to insights and resources to lead effectively, and allows employees to connect, develop, and grow through their workplace journey. At its very core, Bob was designed to help clients grow and expand globally. Unparalleled configuration and localization capabilities allow clients to easily adapt to ever-changing organizational needs. 

“Today’s modern, mid-sized businesses are growing quickly, expanding globally, and thinking differently about HR and HR technology’s role in their business success. Progressive, modern companies recognize that a strong HR function is the very core of the business. HR is key to driving employee productivity, collaboration, engagement, and retention.  Bob was developed to help strategic  HR leaders contribute to company growth and expansion. Yesterday’s HR technology is not designed to meet the needs of today’s workforce or environment.” says Perl.

HiBob has offices in New York, London, Sydney, and Tel Aviv and serves more than 1,500 clients and nearly a quarter-million users globally. The company has experienced strong global growth and success as businesses shift attention to employee work experience and strive to drive stronger diversity and inclusivity, globally.  The new Amsterdam office is the first office in a series of new European markets for the company. 

HiBob attaches great importance to diversity in all areas. Not only does the company locate in cities with a high degree of diversity but we also believe in the power of diversity as a growth strategy, and built the technology to support it:  “When it comes to people, there is no one size fits all. Just like the different markets in which we operate, people and organizations have different needs. This is an important reason that we are opening offices in-country so that we can better support the market and customer needs and adapt our platform accordingly,” adds Perl, who will head up the expanding team in the new office in Amsterdam.

In addition to tailoring HR requirements in specific countries, HiBob focuses on flexibility in integration. The system works with well-known solutions, such as ADP, NMBRS, Greenhouse, Recruitee, and TeamTailor. In a matter of weeks, Bob can be deployed to enable communication, collaboration, and connectivity that drives stronger productivity resulting in better business outcomes. 

About HiBob

HiBob was founded to modernize HR tech. HiBob’s intuitive and data-driven platform, ‘Bob’, was built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Since its launch in late 2015, HiBob has achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth and became the HR platform of choice for more than 1,500 modern, mid-sized and multi-location companies who understand that a powerful, agile HR tech suite is mission critical and a key driver of organizational success. Fast-growing companies in Benelux, the Nordics, and across the globe such as Ace & Tate, Telia Carrier, Happy Socks, Instabox, Nordcloud, and Conscia rely upon HiBob to help HR and managers connect, engage, develop and retain top talent.

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The business, which has existing offices in the US, UK, and EMEA, has identified a significant opportunity to support modern, mid-sized Australian companies and to work with local leadership teams to develop and enhance their people engagement and culture strategies, reduce churn and increase productivity by reducing the administrative burden of HR in the highly competitive local talent market.

HiBob has appointed Damien Andreasen as ANZ Country Manager to lead its operations in the Australian market. Damien will be establishing HiBob’s Australian and New Zealand headquarters in Sydney with plans to significantly expand the team to offer clients and partners a full-service offering in this market, including account management, local implementation and support, and sales. Prior to joining HiBob, Damien spent over a decade launching and scaling technology companies in the ANZ region including Spreets, Lawpath, and Ento.

“When I saw Bob it was a slam dunk! It was attractive, easy to use, and I felt like I was in a place that I could stay for a while.”

Claude SilverChief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia

Damien Andreasen said: “The role of HR in modern organisations is more critical and strategic than ever. Businesses face increased challenges attracting and retaining top talent and creating a truly inclusive company culture that can successfully manage the rise of dispersed teams and flexible working.

“HiBob has built a unique HR platform “Bob”, that empowers HR leaders to successfully manage these modern-day challenges and create a remarkable employee experience.

“HiBob will be committing significant resources to our entry into Australia and New Zealand, and is already developing several local integrations with Go1, JobAdder, Xero and Keypay, and recruiting several senior hires across all areas of the business to support our growth and customer success objectives locally.”

Damien Wodak, Managing Director – HR SaaS at SEEK Investments, which led HiBob’s $70 million Series B funding round in December 2020, said: “HiBob’s unique HR platform, Bob, is a compelling and dynamic solution that enhances company culture, increases retention, and provides detailed insight into the employee’s lifecycle while reducing the administrative burden of HR for fast-growing businesses. Bob’s flexible, specialised capabilities will resonate with modern, mid-sized, multi-location Australian companies looking to create a remarkable work experience for their employees.”

Established in Israel in 2015, HiBob identified that modern Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) have steadily evolved. Specifically, HiBob’s HR platform enables clients to:

1. Scale as they grow, while reflecting the needs and policies of different teams and different locations. Bob is designed to customise HR processes for each site, including time-off policies and workflows.
2. Access powerful analytics that allows managers and HR leaders to access valuable information to inform planning and decision making.
3. Retain talent through a distinct user-friendly experience that brings people together to create meaningful professional and social relationships, whether they work on-site or remotely.
4. Create a remarkable employee experience: Bob is designed to enhance company culture through transparency, meaningful engagement, motivation, and anonymous reporting.
5. Increase productivity, by streamlining and saving time on core HR processes, and continuously improve HR performance and the employee experience.

“Simplicity and possibility to include everything in the same platform! Easy administration.”

Nov 19, 2021 Administrator in Financial Services

Intuitive HR tech platforms that all members of an organisation, including HR teams, senior leadership, line managers, and individuals, can use to engage and collaborate are now mission-critical.

HiBob’s technology recognises and addresses the needs of previously under-served modern, mid-sized, multi- location companies to support the administrative aspects of HR, and cultivate positive cultures for people, whether dispersed, fully remote or hybrid. HiBob’s triple-digit revenue growth year over year is underpinned by the impact it is delivering to its global client base.

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