Home featured Featured Opinion Featured Flexible working and employee engagement adds up Jeremy Plint December 16, 2013 Sustaining a happy and satisfied workforce through effective engagement should be at the top of any organisation’s priority list. However, what comprises effective employee engagement that spurs on positive and productive staff members, appears to be changing as quickly as the technology enabling it. In the past, workplace satisfaction may have been driven by engaging staff with a certain size of financial package or bonus as well as junkets and freebies to drive loyalty from your employees. But for today’s workforce, satisfaction is increasingly driven by autonomy for employees to complete jobs on their own terms combined with the ability to achieve a better work life balance. So how do employers look to increase employee engagement to drive productivity in today’s world? Arming a workforce with new technologies for flexible working is both empowering and a highly effective productivity growth driver. This infographic from Vodafone shows 75 per cent of those surveyed agree that flexible working boosts job satisfaction and over 70 per cent report an improvement in work life balance. One method to achieve this is by simply talking to your staff to uncover the level of mobility and flexibility they require in their day-to-day work life and provide the level of BYOD technology they require to achieve a positive engagement . Without the correct work environment, what else might you lose apart from employee morale? Research also shows that boosting morale