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A Candid Look at Employee Engagement Five Global Truths

Despite the brief employment slump at the turn of the millennium, companies have finally woken up to the fact that their people issues are key to their prospects for prosperity in the near, middle and distant future. Employers are seeing that the talents, knowledge, availability, discretionary effort and even the social circles of their employees make up each company’s competitiveness profile. This is a fundamental fact of life for at least the next 20 years, if not longer.