Employee Engagement: What's Trending Now

HR professionals from MIT and Harvard’s Broad Institute and Echo Global Logistics shared stories of successful initiatives that are improving employee engagement in the workplace.

Some interesting highlights:

• Echo used to prevent social media use in the office, now they’re embracing it
• Careers in STEM are traditionally pursued by men, but The Broad Institute is helping women thrive
• Soon, Gen Y, millennials, and baby boomers will be working on the same teams. Is your company ready for all ages?

Learn about our panelists:

Gabrielle Farias is in Human Resources for MIT and Harvard’s Broad Institute, a biomedical and genomic research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Broad Institute was listed on Glassdoor’s Top 50 Places to Work in 2016. Gabrielle shared new developments in the Broad Institute’s mentorship program as well as innovative ways in which the organization retains and engages new parents.

Karyn DeFalco is an HR professional at Echo Global Logistics, a Chicago-based publicly traded transportation and supply chain management services firm that has been a mainstay on Crain’s list of Chicago’s Fastest-Growing Companies since 2011. Karyn shared Echo’s approach to a changing workforce, including new ways in which the company is engaging millennials.