The 2021 Q3 Gallagher Better WorksSM Insights Report includes five quick-read articles with actionable insights into building and maintaining a productive culture that supports employee wellbeing to attract and retain talent and achieve better outcomes. Addressing engagement drivers is especially important to improving retention. Companies with highly engaged employees enjoy enhanced levels of operational and business performance. A big part of meeting organizational performance goals involves fortifying a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

The 2021 Q3 Gallagher Better WorksSM InsightsReport explores what employees need and want the most right now, and how employers can balance those expectations against organizational goals. Discover how you can create a more engaged and resilient workforce.

In this issue:

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Taking Small Steps to Support Steady Progress when Integrating Social Principles

Certain events in recent years have amplified social inequalities with a constancy that was previously unknown to most Americans. While opportunities can vary drastically among segments of the population, challenges permeate all aspects of the lives they affect — including jobs.

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Enrolling Employees in a More Engaging Benefits Experience

Employers are ramping up for open enrollment with a new vision of benefits management. And as it turns out, the acceleration of emerging HR trends is a silver lining in dealing with the difficult challenges of the pandemic. Employees will always value their benefits based on substance, but there's growing recognition that how they interact with them throughout the year is just as important.

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Minimizing Pent-up Turnover Through a Better Understanding of Workforce Engagement

Negative effects of crisis situations on the economy and hiring often dampen inclinations among the workforce to look elsewhere for employment. The year 2020 was no exception. However, better business conditions are prevailing and competition for talent is expected to revitalize.

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Reality Checking an Optimal Approach for Returning Employees to the Workplace

As return-to-workplace plan implementation has steadily picked up, organizations have been pressed, once again, to adapt to a different way of operating. The changing subtleties of where, when and how work is performed raise questions that have long-term consequences. And one of the most important is about the effects on the organization's culture and its ability to compete for talent.

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Understanding Diversity's Influence on the Three Stages of Financial Wellbeing

Some employees are still experiencing aftershocks from having their financial foundations rocked in 2020. That's why many employers remain focused on improving the financial stability of their workforce, even as the economy stabilizes. Meeting individuals where they are now will help to equitably serve everyone's best interests in the future.

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