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City hall will try to improve employee engagement after a 2017 survey showed about half of Saskatoon’s civic employees who responded feel engaged.

The survey was conducted from June 7 to July 5; just over half of the city’s 3,257 employees responded. The survey results suggested 48.7 per cent of employees felt engaged, while 26.9 per cent said they were almost engaged.

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Eleven per cent of respondents said they were disengaged and another 13.4 per cent said they were indifferent.

A City of Saskatoon report accompanying the McLean & Company survey results says the city reached its desired benchmark of 75.6 per cent of employees feeling engaged or almost engaged.

“To address the results of the survey, management and staff are developing action plans to strengthen and improve employee engagement,” the city report says.

Employees rated the workplace environment highly and most said they did not feel discriminated against (78 per cent) or emotionally harassed (74 per cent), the report says.