The keys to creating real employee engagement

Businesses need to work hard to retain an increasingly mobile workforce

Brown Thomas on Grafton Street, Dublin: the group employs about 3,500 people

The Central Statistics Office announced in June that Ireland was “as close to full employment as possible”, with unemployment at 4.4 per cent.

As a result, we are seeing businesses compete to hire and retain an increasingly mobile workforce across every industry and sector.

The nature of work is also changing. Millennials are rejecting the traditional trends of longstanding careers within one organisation.

The average tenure is now 4.4 years, with 91 per ...