Low engagement, high turnover. A disengaged floor churns, and the bill climbs.
Why UnDesked / Workforce Engagement
Workforce Engagement
No single factor moves retention
more than engagement.
Turnover is the largest preventable cost on the floor, and every exit is paid for twice: once to recruit, hire, and train a replacement, and again in the production, quality, and safety you lose while the role sits empty or still ramping.
The floor, in the loop
Maria recognized DanSafety Star of the week
KudosShift pulse86% positive today
Idea from Line 2Add a second scanner
AdoptedNew lockout SOP142 of 150 acknowledged
94%Engagement and retention move together.
Engagement is the lever. Turnover and its cost are what it moves. Watch all three respond.
Turnover is the most expensive symptom of disengagement.
The floor is most likely to walk in the first 90 days, exactly when a new hire is still running at 40 to 60 percent of full output. You pay to hire them, pay while they ramp, then pay to do it again.
Risk of leavingOutput capacity
The ROI of being heard
Engagement is not a soft cost. Run the numbers.
Move the engagement slider and watch turnover, and the check you write for it, move with it. This is the same lever recognition and a real voice pull on.
Higher engagement maps to lower turnover using Gallup's finding that the most engaged teams see up to 43% less turnover.
38%
Annual turnover
192
People lost per year
$3.4M
Cost of turnover per year
$0.6M
Saved vs a disengaged floor
Model: replacement cost set to 40% of pay (Gallup), turnover scaled from a 45% disengaged baseline toward 26% at full engagement (Gallup Q12).13 A planning estimate, not a quote.
Your frontline can do what no other team can. If you give them the tools.
They spot the defect, the hazard, and the better way first. But only 43 percent feel seen and 39 percent feel heard,4 because the channels that carry a voice were built for the desk, not the floor.
No way to ask them
No corporate email, no intranet, so the survey never reaches the floor, and the signal never reaches you.
Recognition stops at the desk
Kudos live in tools the floor cannot open. The people doing the work rarely hear that it mattered.
Suggestions go in a box and die
A good idea from Line 2 has nowhere to go and no one to close the loop, so people stop offering them.
Communication runs one way
Announcements get pushed down. Questions, reactions, and concerns have no way back up.
People do not leave because the work is hard. They leave because no one was listening.
Give the floor a voice
Engagement that lifts retention.
Recognition, feedback, and two-way communication that reach every worker, in their language.
The loop that keeps people.
Engagement is not a once-a-year survey. It is a cycle: ask, listen, act, recognize, and do it again. UnDesked runs that loop where the work already happens.
Ask
Pulse surveys and polls in seconds
Listen
Every reply, from every worker
Act
Turn feedback into a real change
Recognize
Kudos and shout-outs, on the floor
Heard.
And they stay.
And they stay.
AskPulse surveys and polls in seconds
ListenEvery reply, from every worker
ActTurn feedback into a real change
RecognizeKudos and shout-outs, on the floor
↻ and again
Engagement, built into the work. Not bolted on.
Because the floor already runs the day on UnDesked, every way to be heard lives in the same app they use to clock the work.
Recognition and kudos
Peer and manager shout-outs that show up where the floor will actually see them.
Pulse surveys
Short, frequent check-ins that reach the frontline, not just the inbox.
Two-way messaging
Communication the floor can answer, react to, and start, not just receive.
Ideas and feedback
A real channel for suggestions, with a reply and a status, so the loop closes.
Read and acknowledge
Know who has seen the update, signed the policy, or still needs a nudge.
Polls and reactions
Low-friction ways to weigh in, so even the quiet shifts get a say.
Same app, every worker, no email needed, in their language.
The supercharger
And because it is one platform, it speaks every language at once.
Engagement is the win for any team. For a multilingual workforce it goes further: author once and every workflow, message, and document reaches each worker in the language they read, automatically. No extra tools, no extra step.
See the AI Translation EngineCustomer story
A Fortune 500 plastics manufacturer consolidated 50 facilities and 8,500 deskless workers onto UnDesked.
0%fewer safety incidents in two years
0xmore near-miss reports, 400 to 4,000 a month
0%lower workers' comp costs, about $2.2M saved
0%higher workforce engagement
"Before UnDesked, every problem on the floor meant another login and another vendor, and no one place to see any of it. Now safety, quality, training, and communications all run on one platform. I manage the whole operation from a single screen, and my team works from one source of truth instead of six."
A Fortune 500 plastics manufacturer. Read the full story3
Stop paying to replace the same role.
Bring your headcount and your turnover rate. We will show you what a floor that feels heard is worth, in dollars.