If employee engagement was a pie, compensation and benefits would just be a pinch of salt.

Company culture alignment, career investment, and professional development, on the other hand, would be the flour, butter, and sugar. After all, they’re the top three drivers of employee engagement, according to a recent report from ManpowerGroup’s talent solutions company, Right Management.

For employees, five major factors impact engagement: The report found company culture alignment (33.9%) has the most influence, while career investment (31.4%), professional development (20%), compensation and benefits (8.3%), and job logistics (6.4%) trail behind. While leaders also view culture alignment (32.4%) as most influential to engagement, they put compensation and benefits (21.2%) in second place.

While compensation and benefits are important, leaders may be overestimating how important it is to employees, according to Beth Linderbaum, SVP of delivery at Right Management.

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Want to know how Hyatt Hotels Corporation boosted their survey response rates by 31% and increased employee satisfaction? In collaboration with PwC, they’ve developed a unique listening strategy that’s transforming their workplace culture.

Discover how they’re using Listen Platform, a PwC product, to get real-time feedback to drive meaningful changes and enhance both the employee and guest experience.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation is leveraging these strategies to empower leaders and build trust among their teams.

It’s all laid out in their case study. Read it here.

Workday on Thursday announced new tools and capabilities geared to leverage AI in the platform.

The HCM now offers HiredScore AI for Recruiting and HiredScore AI for Talent Mobility to customers, available directly through Workday. Workday acquired HiredScore in April.

Since the acquisition, the two organizations have worked to better integrate HiredScore’s capabilities with the Workday platform, as well as leverage the data from the two platforms to better serve customers, according to Athena Karp, HiredScore’s general manager.

Zoom out. The Workday announcement comes as leaders at the HCM giant and HiredScore focus on quickly and ethically incorporating AI into their suite of offerings, a demand they’re hearing from customers, especially following the noisy deployment of ChatGPT and the awakening of the capabilities generative AI can bring to the workplace in the last 18 months, Karp said.

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How many times have you wished a crystal ball could give you a glimpse into the future of work? Oh, what a breeze HR would be…

In lieu of a fortune-telling orb, many companies seek out workplace consultants to help guide their HR strategies. One of those experts is Peter Miscovich, executive managing director at consultancy JLL. He’s helped C-suite executives at companies including Accenture, AT&T, and IBM design and implement hybrid workplaces since the 1990s.

Miscovich, along with Sanjay Rishi and Benjamin Breslau, published The Workplace You Need Now: Shaping Spaces for the Future of Work in 2021 to help companies create future-oriented workspaces. He shared with HR Brew the lessons people pros can learn from the book.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What are HR takeaways from the book?

It focuses on the personalized workplace, the responsible workplace, and the experiential workplace.

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