{"id":14664,"date":"2015-03-18T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/2015-03-18-employers-shift-focus-to-sustainable-engagement\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T05:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:27:23","slug":"2015-03-18-employers-shift-focus-to-sustainable-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/2015-03-18-employers-shift-focus-to-sustainable-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers Shift Focus To Sustainable Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last two decades, employers focused on measuring employee engagement as the primary means to determine workforce commitment and productivity. This made sense given the numerous studies correlating high employee engagement and performance, but what happens when employee engagement goes beyond what is expected? What happens when employees are engaged through the night and on weekends? What happens when employee engagement leads to employee burnout?<\/p>\n

In response to the aforementioned questions and an engagement study<\/a> conducted by Towers Watson, employers are shifting their focus from \u201cengaged\u201d employees to \u201csustainably engaged\u201d employees. The study, which included 32,000 employees in 29 markets around the world, found that high engagement as it has traditionally been defined is no longer sufficient to fuel the highest levels of performance. Companies with the highest profit margins had sustainably engaged employees who felt their companies energized them by promoting their physical<\/span>, emotional<\/span>,and social wellbeing<\/span>.<\/p>\n

A couple unique statistics from the study that support sustainably engaged employees:<\/p>\n