Staff engagement 'higher than it was' before pandemic

A survey of 264 HR professionals by XpertHR six weeks into lockdown has suggested that staff engagement was higher than it was before the pandemic for a third of UK employers (32.2%). The research also found that almost half (49.2%) felt there had been no change and fewer than one in five (18.6%) thought employee engagement had fallen. Around one in five HR professionals (20.8%) said that all or almost all of their work is driven by the crisis, which was less than half that number (42.8%) in XpertHR's survey on 2 April, and down from one in three (32.2%) on 16 April. Since the lock...