• Employee Communications
  • About Us
  • Client Work
  • Our Team
  • Creative Solutions
  • Recognition
• Compliance
  • Crosscheck
• Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance
  • Corporate/Board Governance
  • Executive Compensation
  • Not-for-Profit and Higher Education
• Health & Welfare Benefits
  • Innovative Plan Design Strategy and Analysis
  • Claim Audits
  • Dependent Eligibility Audits
  • Budgeting/Financials
  • Data Mining and Benchmarking
  • Wellness/Individual Health Management
  • Health Plan Compliance
  • Network Analysis
  • Prescription Drug Benefits
  • Vendor Competitive Bidding and Renewal Negotiations
  • Funding Arrangements
  • Retiree Health and VEBAs
  • Healthy Enterprise Initiative
  • Consumer-Driven Health Plans
• HR Technology and Automation
  • Business Case Development
  • HR Business Process Redesign
  • HR Software & Services Selection
  • Insource/Outsource Decision
  • Process & Technology Assessments
  • Project Management & Implementation Oversight
• International HR and Benefits
• Investment Consulting
• Organization and Talent
  • Strategic Workforce Planning
  • Organization Design and Assessment
  • Operating Models and Work Systems
  • Talent Standards, Development and Succession
  • Retention Management
  • Strategy Execution
  • Human Resources Functional Effectiveness
  • Employee Value Proposition
  • Effective Performance Management
• Performance and Rewards
  • Pay for Performance
    • Incentive Plan Design
    • Base Pay Delivery
  • Total Rewards Strategies
  • Compensation Structure
    • Job Structure and Evaluation System
    • Salary Structure
    • Pay Equity
  • Effective Performance Management
• Retirement Benefits
  • Actuarial Services
  • Plan Design
  • Plan Governance
  • Risk Assessment and Mitigation
  • Investment Management
• Sales Force Effectiveness
  • Sales Strategy Development
  • Sales Force Organization
  • Sales Strategy Execution
  • Sales Strategy Support

Rewards of Work Study

For more than a decade, Sibson Consulting has focused our Rewards of Work Study around gaining an understanding of how employees feel about their work. What motivates employees? What retains them? What attracts them? These questions have represented the core of what Sibson Consulting considers the "Rewards of Work."

Sibson recently completed its 2009 Rewards of Work Study of American workers. This is the fifth Rewards of Work Study that Sibson has conducted since 1997 to measure how employees rate their total rewards and what motivates them to become and stay engaged. In addition to identifying key drivers of turnover and engagement, the study offers guidance about where employers can re-balance the value exchange with employees, both now and in the future.

Study results show that:

• Employee engagement is up, as measured by the number of employees who say they understand what to do and are motivated to do it, but it is still below what most employers desire.
• Employee satisfaction has increased for four out of the five rewards elements measured.
• Employees in organizations where layoffs have taken place are far less satisfied than are those in other organizations.
• Millennials (usually defined as those born from the early 1980s to the early 1990s) are much more dissatisfied and disengaged than any other age group.

The study shows that rather than waiting for a stronger economic environment, employers can use 2009 and 2010 to correct any imbalance in the employee value exchange. The results of the 2009 Rewards of Work Study provide important insight into what can and should be done.

Contact us today if you would like to hear more about the results of the 2009 Rewards of Work Study or learn how our recent study findings can be used to help your organization rebalance your Employee Value Exchange. We have experts available in total rewards, performance management, compensation and benefits.