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Engagement
Your whole company, in every worker's pocket. On every jobsite, in every language.
Why engagement
Engaged crews build better, safer and longer.
Engagement is not a perk. It shows up in safety, quality, margin and who stays.
In AEC, most of your people never sit at a desk. They move between jobsites, shifts and trucks. Bench puts engagement on the phone in their pocket, with a senior team that plans and runs the program for you.
The data
What engagement is worth.
41%
lower absenteeism in highly engaged business units.
Source: Gallup Q12 Meta-Analysis
Only 31%
of U.S. employees are engaged at work, a 10-year low.
Source: Gallup U.S. Employee Engagement
64%
fewer safety incidents in highly engaged business units.
Source: Gallup Q12 Meta-Analysis
~80%
of the global workforce is deskless, with no desk, inbox or company laptop.
Source: Emergence, Deskless Workforce Report
The AEC reality
Your workforce is in the field, not at a desk.
2 to 3x
more likely to feel disconnected: field workers vs. office staff when communication stops at the trailer.
Source: Industry surveys of frontline workers
85%+
of construction workers carry a smartphone on the jobsite every day.
Source: Construction technology surveys
Multilingual
crews are the norm. Messages only land when they arrive in the language each worker reads best.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction workforce data
One platform, at their fingertips
Reach every worker, wherever the job is.
When engagement is scattered across flyers, group texts, email and separate apps, field crews miss it. Bench puts it all on one platform on every worker's phone, available all day, every day.
Always within reach
The phone is the one tool every worker carries. Engagement lives there, not on a breakroom board or in an inbox they never check.
One app, not five
News, recognition, surveys, training, safety updates and job openings in one place, so workers actually open it.
In their language
Personalized, multilingual video and messages that reach every crew member the way they understand best.
Two-way, in seconds
Quick pulse surveys and reactions let the field talk back, so leaders hear issues early.
Consistent, on schedule
Updates, milestones and check-ins run automatically, so no crew or jobsite is left out.
Measured in one dashboard
See reach, participation and sentiment by crew, branch and role, tied to retention and hiring.
Turn every interaction into action.
Tell us where the backlog, the pipeline or the crew is thin. We'll show you the plan.