As ‘The Great Resignation’ continues to dominate headlines, new terms like ‘The Great Reset’ and ‘The Great Reimagination’ are arising as we all re-evaluate the role of work in our lives. For an increasing number of employees, work has become more than something they just do for financial compensation. Instead, workplaces are being evaluated based […]
Employee engagement is a phrase we hear thrown around a lot, and it certainly sounds important, but what does it actually mean and why is it a helpful metric to track and improve? Way back in 2012, Forbes magazine published an article wrote that; “Employee Engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the […]
In challenging times like these, it’s impossible to fully understand the impact that individual circumstances might be having on our team members. Whether you have an official HR role, or are simply taking the charge with HR within your organization, it’s important to check-in on employees to understand how they’re doing – and what you […]
If your team is working remotely in some capacity, remember you most likely still have a responsibility to provide a safe workplace. Obviously this is somewhat difficult when employees are working from home! A good solution is to conduct a Health & Safety Audit for your remote or telecommuting employees. This is essentially a checklist […]
With more team members working from home now than ever before, you might well be wondering how you can do end-of-year rewards and recognition, or really any type of employee recognition. Employee satisfaction and motivation should always be top of mind for managers and HR leaders, but this is even more important when employees are […]
The COVID Pandemic has had many impacts but one important theme is the way it has catapulted huge numbers of companies into the realms of remote work – many of whom would never have allowed working-from-home otherwise! For many companies, remote work is a brand new world that we are still feeling our way through. […]
If you manage a team of people, you’ll soon realize that having a structured way of storing employee information is essential. A spreadsheet might suffice for a while, but once you get more people and more complexities in who you want to have access to different types of information, a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) […]
The Covid-19 virus has had many impacts on individuals, but one theme we’re consistently hearing from the companies we speak with is that there is unlikely to be a “return to normal”. Most companies were required to adopt work from home arrangements due to the pandemic, but now that the initial roadblocks have been overcome, […]
As employees begin to return to the office after many weeks of being forced to stay-at-home, questions are brewing as to how to best manage the return to work. So many things have changed and the situation is far from clear. You might think that it’s a scary time to be in HR, and while […]
