Failure to adequately engage employees is resulting in monumental costs for companies. The now well-cited Gallup 2014 study suggests that 7 out of 10 workers are unhappy with work. The same Gallup study suggests that an unhappy workforce can amount to $550 billion in lost productivity a year. That’s a lot of money left on the table, and that doesn’t even include the cost of replacing workers that decide to throw in the towel to work somewhere else.

In any work environment, trust is key. Employees who feel their managers do not have confidence in them can second-guess themselves, doubt their job security, keep an eye out for other employment or generally feel more stress. They can also become resentful of the lack of faith. Apparently, though, a majority of workers – especially those bringing in higher salaries – feel secure in their place in their employers’ good graces.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I had an unsettling job search experience recently. I replied to a job ad for a Multimedia Specialist at a university about twenty miles away from where I live. The job looked perfect for me, and even though I’m busy with consulting projects and I made more money consulting in 2016 than I earned at my full-time job in 2015, I still wanted to check out the university job.

twenty20.com/@christinacorso By Paulana Lamonier This story originally appeared on LearnVest as “Side Gig to Full Time: How 3 People Turned Their Passions Into 9-to-5 Jobs.” Whether it’s running an Etsy craft shop or building the occasional website for a friend, there are few of us out there who’ve never had a side gig.

Amy Cuddy, a Harvard psychologist, has devoted her studies to the impact body language has on your confidence, influence, and, ultimately, success. Her biggest findings center on the powerful effects of positive body language. Positive body language includes things like appropriate eye contact, active engagement/listening, and targeted gestures that accentuate the message you’re trying to convey.

Shutterstock I was sitting in a meeting with my boss and a few other marketing department colleagues at one of my previous jobs. The purpose of our meeting was to talk over our overall strategy—particularly for social media—and identify if there was anything that could be streamlined and simplified. We were a really small department. So, if there was any way we could save ourselves some time and effort, we were all ears.

Pexels.com Open offices are all the rage these days, particularly among the cubical-averse. Yet, while open offices have a lot to offer a workplace in terms of productivity and sociability, they also present a host of challenges. One of these challenges is the noise, and it’s quickly becoming the biggest barrier to a productive and pleasant work day.

Shutterstock “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -Dr Albert Schweitzer It’s one of those classic, timeless management questions: What are the attributes of a good leader? This subject was explored last month in a leadership survey from Robert Halfexamining the perceptions of two different groups: “workers” and “CFOs.

Shutterstock I always tell my clients that they should be prepared to answer all sorts of different questions during a job interview. After all, employers are known for throwing in curveball questions to catch prospective employees off guard and gauge how they react.

One of the common complaints baby boomers and members of Gen X share about millennial employees is their affinity for speaking up quickly and confidently in the workplace, even though they do not have the tenure or experience generations passed earned before raising their voice. This generational frustration stems from attitudes in the workplace.