Engaged employees are linked to superior business performance impacting a positive bottom line. An engaged workforce is critical for cultivating an environment where employees and businesses thrive. The onset of COVID-19 brought tremendous change to the workplace and threw businesses for a loop. As a result, are today’s new and tenured workers happy and engaged in the workplace, or are they unhappy and disengaged? How does talent management contribute to engagement? What have organizations and business leaders experienced and learned about this topic since the pandemic and how have they been addressing it?Through academic and professional research, this final project case study will require you to collaborate with another student and critically analyze and make recommendations about lessons learned on the topic of post pandemic employee engagement within the fundamentals of talent management.