Create an Engaging Benefits Guide
One of the central functions of HR is to help employees make smart, fully-informed decisions about their benefits enrollment, and then to actually make good use of those benefits as needed. There are a number of tools that can assist you in this goal, starting with a benefits guide. In recent years, the benefits guide […]
Employee Retention in a Hybrid Work Environment
Some have deemed it the “Great Reshuffling.†Whatever you call it, there’s no denying that the pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we think about the workplace. And as work environments continue to evolve and adapt, it’s vital that HR teams respond in kind. Here’s one important question that HR leaders should be asking themselves: […]
How to Connect with Remote Hires
Digital communication technologies, such as Zoom, Skype, and FaceTime, have made it surprisingly easy to interview and hire people without ever meeting them face-to-face. Actually bonding with those new hires, forming a meaningful connection that brings them into your company culture, is far more challenging. With many businesses still doing a lot of their hiring […]
Tailoring Benefits to a Multi-Generational Workforce
Today’s employees are looking for benefits that go well beyond the basic, the generic, or the cookie-cutter. Rather, today’s employees want benefits that actually address their personal and family needs. Naturally, those needs can look quite a bit different from one employee to the next, which means HR must be ready to build benefits packages […]
Engaging Employees with Their Benefits
The word “engagement†gets thrown around a lot, but it may be helpful to pause and consider its meaning. In the context of company culture, engagement generally means an emotional commitment on behalf of your employees. Engaged employees care about the company, and they care about what they are doing each day. This doesn’t necessarily […]
Who’s Responsible for Company Culture?
Over the past decade, there’s been a sea change with regard to company culture. Where once this may have been considered something of a “soft†concept, culture is now almost universally recognized as an important driver of employee morale, retention, and productivity. In short, most business leaders understand culture to be something that creates strong […]
Simple Ways to Prioritize Employee Engagement
Over the last 18 months, all of us have gone through seasons of immense disruption. For many of us, this period has been marked by stress and uncertainty, both in our personal lives as well as our professional lives. Naturally, this has led to a significant increase of stress, burnout, and fatigue. The question is, […]
3 HR Basics for Small Business Owners
One of the most exciting aspects of running a small business is hiring employees, assembling a team, and creating a positive and proactive company culture. But if developing your team is exciting, it can also be a little bit daunting. This is especially true when it comes to human resources responsibilities. The reality is that […]
How HR Can Support Working Parents
Being a parent is deeply rewarding, but it’s hardly without stress. Likewise, even the most satisfying and pleasurable of careers can bring their share of anxiety. Combine the two ventures and things can really seem hairy. Simply put, working parents undergo unique levels of stress, and over time that stress can impact their mental and […]
Creating Safe Workplaces After COVID-19
As business owners consider the long and challenging process of re-opening in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a central question that must be addressed: How can we begin growing the economy, and resuming some semblance of normal productivity, while still promoting the health and safety of employees?It’s a question that may not […]
