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Employers today face two key challenges: 70% of U.S. employees are disengaged and health care costs have increased by 80% in the last decade. And the same disengaged, unsatisfied and uncommitted employees are more likely to be unhealthy and unproductive.

The dog-days of summer are here, and finding ways to engage employees can be tough. If your team-building exercises are getting a bit dry, try spicing them up with some of the following activities from Quantum Workplace.

Trust is a key component to building a better workplace culture. Yet HR policies can sometimes be redundant, outdated and may even cause distrust between employees and company leaders. Travis Bradberry, president of TalentSmart and co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, shares why it might be time to take another look at editing that employee handbook.

Employee training can play an important role in an organization's efforts to retain key workers. Benefit managers and other employees who are first-time supervisors may need a little extra support in their new role. The following tips, from Sharlyn Lauby of HR Bartender, can help make sure new supervisors are set up for success.

Organizational culture plays a big role in employee health and productivity and, ultimately, customer satisfaction. More often than not, that culture trickles down from the top. Here are 15 CEOs who are among the highest-rated company leaders as ranked by their own employees, according to Glassdoor.

Want to attract the best young talent? Great Places to Work assembled its top picks of employers with fantastic benefits and great working environments – just the sort of places millennials are flocking to for work in 2015. “Business leaders know that a great culture is a crucial competitive advantage in the emerging Great Workplace Era,” says Michael Bush, the organization's CEO. “Leading organizations are constantly monitoring and analyzing their employees’ workplace experiences and then taking action to improve them. These companies' efforts are resonating with millennials.” Here are the top 20 of that exhaustive list:

Prices are soaring for specialty drugs used to treat critical illnesses such as cancer, Hepatitis C and multiple sclerosis, as well as more common conditions like high cholesterol. Right now, employers are largely bearing the brunt of the cost, and health care experts and leading employer organizations like the Minnesota Health Action Group are looking for collaborative, sustainable, solutions to this challenging situation.

The importance of understanding what drives a person is paramount in determining whether or not they’d be a good cultural fit within a company. Thomas Koulopoulos, founder of the Delphi Group, says “the key in hiring the best people is to look for foundational traits that speak to their sense of purpose, what drives them to achieve, how they deal with failure and success, how they think, and why they do what they do.”

With afternoon showers and sunny weekends, it must be summertime. Sadly, the days of elementary school are gone and those in the workforce notice little difference in the summertime months. However, employers have the opportunity to energize its workforce by providing some easy, inexpensive ways to boost morale and help employees have some summer fun, courtesy of Hallmark Business Connections.

Employers juggling multiple generations of workers face special challenges. But as the retiring baby boomers open up new opportunities for others, employers face another new challenge – recruiting and engaging the millennials. Experts at Colonial Life’s Small Business Hub offer these seven tips to bring more awareness in onboarding a new generation of professionals.