Ensuring employees feel valued and appreciated has always been an important part of maintaining a healthy workplace culture, but people’s priorities today are conceptually different from what they were pre-COVID. In the battle for top talent, winning companies are those taking the time to listen.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...