Employee engagement is one of the latest topics to make headlines in today’s strained economy. Just last week, CNNMoney.com reported that many American workers have admitted to doing the bare minimum to keep from getting fired. Unfortunately morale isn’t the only thing affected by just getting by; productivity also declines. To further the point, in a survey by the Workforce Institute at Kronos, 40% of those surveyed report that productivity has been negatively impacted and of those, another two-thirds admit that employees are less motivated then before.