#Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is a magical corporate incantation that convinces staff to sweat for the company of their own volition. In reality, it is nothing but an endless loop of surveys and meetings—a conversational prison. Management nods in contentment at the numbers while employees swear fealty to the jingles of notification sounds. In the end, zeal and fatigue alike are sealed into spreadsheets, and occasionally more work is bestowed under the banner of team building.

Employee satisfaction is the quantification of the gap between corporate slogans about smiling colleagues and the sighs echoing through the workplace. Each year, a grand festival of meetings and surveys is held in pursuit of higher scores. Managers unveil every imaginable perk as a “new initiative” to boost the metric. In the end, the only thing that truly rises is the survey result itself.