Author: David Dungay

Employee Engagement Ideas That Actually Work: Data-Backed Plays to Lift Retention, Productivity, and CX

Keeping people genuinely excited about their work is getting harder. Gallup says only about 21% of employees feel engaged right now, and that lack of connection costs companies an estimated $8.8–$8.9 trillion a year. It shows up as slow projects,...

Employee Engagement Survey Best Practices: Unlocking the Benefits of Feedback

Ask most leaders if they listen to their people, and they’ll say “of course.” But many employees don’t feel heard. That gap appears in subtle ways: lower energy, quiet exits, and the slow drain of “clock-botching,” where people do the...

Internal Mobility & Employee Experience: How to Master Internal Hiring

Hiring externally has become second nature for many companies. A role opens, recruiters go to market, and weeks later, a stranger walks in. It works sometimes. Other times, the team waits, projects lose steam, and the newcomer struggles to fit. Meanwhile,...

Leadership & Employee Experience: The Impact of Executive Accountability on EX

Work is messy these days. People are balancing shifting hybrid routines, office return demands, and AI tools showing up faster than anyone can adapt. The pressure is clearest in places where leadership & employee experience aren’t pulling in the same...

Performance Management as Employee Experience: Moving Beyond Reviews to Growth and Engagement

Performance reviews don’t have the best reputation. For a lot of people, performance management still means one awkward meeting a year, a form that disappears into HR’s system, and feedback that’s already out of date. It’s no surprise employees groan...

The Employee Onboarding Experience: Building ROI from Day One

The employee onboarding experience isn’t just a box to tick on day one. It’s when new hires start to judge whether the culture they heard about in interviews matches what they see in practice. If the experience falls flat, many...

Redesigning the Employee Offboarding Experience: From Exit to Advocacy

The employee offboarding experience is easy to overlook. Most companies have onboarding guides, training schedules, and welcome kits in place. But when someone leaves, the process is usually improvised. Only about a quarter of organisations have a proper exit process...

Employee Experience ROI: Calculating EX Business Impact

Talk to any finance leader right now and you’ll hear the same concern: people costs are climbing, while productivity gains are harder to see. The missing piece for many organisations is employee experience ROI, the ability to show, in numbers,...

Employee feedback systems: Building Your Employee Listening Strategy

Most people are familiar with traditional employee feedback systems. Once a year, an email lands with a link to the “big” employee survey. It takes half an hour, maybe more. You click through the questions, give some careful answers, and...

Employee Experience Metrics: What to Track for Better EX Measurement (and Why)

People don’t quit because of one bad day. They quit because the little frictions pile up, from slow tools, flat meetings, missing praise, and policies that make great work harder than it should be. You can feel the pain before...