I’m speaking on May 20 about engaging the “kept-on” workforce, a topic I believe is the most important workforce challenge organizations are facing right now. If your company has recently experienced significant layoffs and churn, I bet you understand why. Such events hit morale and performance hard. The survivors may be lucky to still have a job, but they’re also traumatized by the uncertainty of those changes, and may be holding back on their best efforts or even actively spreading discontent with other employees and customers.

A balance sheet can look better after a cut-back in positions, but without a strategy for engaging the kept-on workforce, the organization is going to bleed money through losses in performance, productivity and customer satisfaction. It’s difficult to make that argument with senior decision-makers, however, if you don’t have numbers to back up your gut-feel and your anecdotal stories. That’s why Career Systems International developed an “engagement calculator.” 

Real dollars are lost when employees underperform because of disengagement. You need to understand the magnitude of those losses, then you need to re-engage your workforce and turn their improved performance into a competitive advantage. 

You can try our engagement calculator here. For more information on the costs of disengagement download here.

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