Five employee engagement ideas that make a difference

During my many years spent focused on internal corporate communications at a large Silicon Valley tech company, employee engagement was always on my mind. We had a large population of employees nearing retirement age with an average length of employment around 20-30 years. On top of that, most of our new hires were recent college grads, so we had an influx of Millennials and all of the challenges that came with it.

We were faced with the double-whammy challenge of employee engagement: keeping the tenured employees stimulated while engaging the Millennials in new and varied ways.

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