How to motivate — and delight — employees with rewards

In an age of quiet quitting, creative incentives can radically increase employee engagement and productivity.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 5:00 a.m. February 9, 2023
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Crawford Thomas Recruiting staff members on one of the company's reward trips.
Crawford Thomas Recruiting staff members on one of the company's reward trips.
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Oh, great, another pizza party to celebrate a business milestone or accomplishment. Yay.

Workers are disengaged from their jobs across most, if not all, sectors of the economy, leading to the coining of a new term, “quiet quitting,” to describe the state of malaise that leads employees to do the bare minimum required of them.

William Stonehouse III, co-founder and president of Crawford Thomas Recruiting.
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