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Employee engagement (or lack thereof) is vital to building a successful workforce. An engaged workforce is one that performs better, stays longer, and helps you both recruit new candidates and grow your employer brand, while lack of engagement causes issues like quiet quitting, actual quitting, and a damaged company reputation. So, to help you boost employee engagement, we asked 7 people leaders and CEOs for their best tips on how to boost employee engagement using social media.

It’s fun to be in HR right now. If you didn’t already have enough to deal with—like trying to recruit in a historically challenging labor market, or managing health and safety during Covid and navigating the various challenges of an in-person vs. remote workplace—you now have quiet quitting to add to the list.

Despite the name, social recruiting’s benefits aren’t limited just to retention. A strong social recruiting strategy can help with retaining employees as well. To help you retain employees more efficiently, we asked social media experts and HR professionals for their #1 way they’ve used social media to retain talent.

Ah, retention. 2021 saw employee turnover go through the roof. Between the Great Resignation and Covid, talent acquisition has faced practically unparalleled challenges over the past 12 months.

Nothing hurts quite like an employee quitting. You put so much time into finding them; hiring them; training them–and then they leave, and you have to do it all over again. But it doesn’t have to be that way. While resignation is definitely unavoidable, there are steps you can take to boost employee retention.

2021 is the year when tens of millions of Americans turned in their resignations—about 34.5 million to date.

2021 has a crazy year for talent acquisition. Employees are leaving. Candidates are getting pickier than ever. And the year’s not even over! Who knows what new talent acquisition challenges 2022 will bring?