Nursery World - Staff retention: Part 3

'Employee engagement' is management jargon, but it can do a lot of
good for both your business and your people, says Childbase Partnership
regional director Sarah Rotundo

There is plenty of research showing that making employees happy is good for business. Engaged employees - those who are personally attached to their work - tend to stay. Where disengagement is high, this can mean a labour turnover of over 50 per cent more than in workplaces where employees are engaged.

According to the influential Macleod Report from 2009, Engaging for Success, engaged employees are 87 per cent less likely to leave than disengaged. This alone should spark a light bulb moment in managers everywhere - before even taking into account additional benefits such as higher productivity (which goes up by nearly a fifth) an increase of profitability by 12 per cent and a reduction in sick days.

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