What does employee engagement mean to you? Is it just another fad? Maybe you think of it as a nice-to-have initiative if you have the time and resources? Or is employee engagement, as it should be, an integral part of your business operations, leadership and...
Employee Benefits and Wellness Articles
Offering a program of employee benefits and wellness initiatives makes good business sense. As well as helping to ensure you get the best out of your current employees, it’s also a great way to attract the top candidates in the marketplace. Employee benefits and wellness programs are an essential aspect of being a responsible employer and will also have a positive impact on your staff retention rates as well as sickness and absence. With absenteeism alone costing employers an estimated $225.8 billion per annum, it’s a potential cost saving businesses cannot afford to ignore.
Use this category to explore some suggestions on how to promote employee wellness, including plenty of low-cost ideas and ways to utilize your intranet in support including:
- dissemination of wellness information and occupational health and safety requirements
- interactive quizzes and surveys on a variety of health and wellness issues
- publicizing health screenings and educational opportunities
- connecting employees in a weight-loss challenge or those seeking lunchtime running companions.
Browse the posts below for additional employee benefits and wellness ideas that could bring cost savings to your business.
Top 30 Employee Engagement Videos
Employee engagement makes good business sense, right? After all, it's logical that employees who feel involved, informed, and connected to your business are more committed and productive. Gallup has been telling us that for years. However, when staff work from home in...
Employee Appreciation: 10 Budget-Friendly Ways To Show Your Team Some Love
Employee Appreciation Day in the United States is usually observed on the first Friday in March, but with these budget-friendly ideas, you can show your appreciation every day. It’s been a challenging year for everyone, and a little appreciation goes a long way....
Stereotypes Of Millennials – Fact Or Fiction? What Employers Need To Know
Let’s face it, millennials often get bad press. According to the media, they are lazy, entitled, job hoppers that are easily distracted by technology. Defined as those born in the 1980s and 1990s, millennials now make up the largest group of working adults in the US...
Top 8 Performance Review Tips For Employees
A performance review is your opportunity to get meaningful feedback on your performance at work. Rather than being an uncomfortable or negative process, performance reviews that are done well help you to grow in your job and progress in your career. So, what do you...
10 Tips To Overcome Remote Team Conflict
Conflict resolution within remote teams is a difficult task for any manager. But when the dispute involves employees who are working remotely, it’s an even bigger challenge. And yet, home working is undoubtedly here to stay. The pandemic has simply fast-tracked what...
Returning To Work After Coronavirus Tips
Coronavirus lockdown restrictions are gradually being eased in some places around the globe. Over the coming weeks, staff will be swapping their slippers for shoes as they head back into offices and workplaces. While this return to normality is welcome news, business...
Re-Entry To Work Post Covid-19: Tips For Employee Wellbeing
Over the coming months, staff will be tentatively swapping their slippers for shoes as they head back into offices and workplaces. While this re-entry to work post-covid-19 is welcome news, business leaders and managers need to sensitively and carefully manage the...
Business Resilience & Operational Continuity: How To Ensure Your SME Is Prepared
The coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need for businesses to be prepared. You may have thought that business resilience and operational continuity were concerns exclusively for big corporates. But as worldwide travel restrictions and lockdowns...
Working From Home: How Well Will You Adjust?
Up until recently, people who work from home seemed to be a minority group. But following the outbreak of Covid-19, the world's largest experiment of remote working is underway. For both employees and managers, this new working arrangement has been thrust upon them...
Team Collaboration Ideas: 15 Ways To Encourage Collaboration & Teamwork In SMEs
Legendary basketballer Michael Jordan famously once said: Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. Team collaboration ideas are just as important to success in the world of business as they are in sport. According to one survey,...
4 Easy Ways To Motivate Disengaged Employees
Did you know that disengaged employees could be costing your company thousands of dollars every year? Finding ways to motivate disengaged employees is a priority for modern companies, especially research tells us that disengaged employees are costing US companies a...
Cultural Audits: How To Assess Your Workplace Culture
Do you know what your corporate culture looks and feels like to employees and customers? Do you know whether your workplace culture is helping you to achieve business goals or is it standing in the way? The truth is most of us don’t know the answers to these...
Employee Profiles: How To Improve Your Employer Brand
Having a strong employer brand can make a big difference when it comes to attracting and retaining the best talent in the marketplace. Companies with strong employer brands have no trouble when it comes to recruitment or indeed, customer retention – think Apple,...
Employee Profiles: How To Improve Your Employer Brand
Having a strong employer brand can make a big difference when it comes to attracting and retaining the best talent in the marketplace. Companies with strong employer brands have no trouble when it comes to recruitment or indeed, customer retention – think Apple,...
What Is Employee Engagement?
Employee engagement means different things to different people. It’s an elusive concept which is why some organizations have struggled to embrace it whole-heartedly. Unlike other business terms like ‘accounts payable’, ‘outsourcing’ or ‘telecommuter’, there is no...
HR’s Role In Employee Engagement: The Essential Guide!
Employee engagement adds value to any organization. It can make a difference to the individual employee as well as the business as a whole. Get it right and the rewards on offer are significant: increased productivity, improved customer service, reduced staff turnover...
How To Develop A Strong Personal Brand, The Easy Way!
Are you looking to take the next step in your career? Or maybe you want to raise your professional profile? Perhaps you want to position yourself as an influencer or authority in your chosen industry? Whatever the case may be, developing a strong personal brand will...
Employee Engagement Goals: The Best 3 Easy Steps To Get Started
Most companies recognize that employee engagement is good for business. It’s logical that workers who have an emotional connection to their jobs and employers will put in more effort and be more productive. In fact, there’s plenty of research out there from big names...
Employee Development: New Approaches To Investing In Employees
Richard Branson famously said that customers come second and employees first. And it’s certainly true that looking after employees can bring wider benefits to both the company and its clients. Happy, engaged employees tend to be more loyal and productive as well as...
Exit Interviews: The How, What, Why And Benefits
Is your businesses guilty of letting important data on employee satisfaction simply walk out the door? Far from being a pointless exercise, exit interviews can provide essential insights into how your company is doing on the employee engagement front, and perhaps more...
CSR and Corporate Citizenship: What Does It All Mean?
Is CSR just another fad or could there be something in it? That’s the question that many small to medium-sized businesses are grappling with. When internal resources both in terms of manpower and budgets are limited, is it worthwhile investing in CSR initiatives that...
Interview Format: Tips On How To Conduct Effective Candidate Interviews
Employee turnover costs US businesses $160 billion a year. And the average cost per hire for companies is $4,129. These are sobering statistics, especially in today’s highly competitive market where every dollar of expenditure counts. Getting the interview process...
Employee Experience: How To Attract And Retain The Best Talent
Today’s highly competitive, globalized economy means that for many businesses it’s getting harder and harder to attract and retain skilled employees. Once upon a time a competitive salary plus a few extra perks like a company vehicle or subsidized gym membership was...
Employee Onboarding Process: Overview & Easy-To-Use New Hire Checklist
Onboarding, or the process of inducting and assimilating a new employee into a company, is a critical task for organizations. Making sure that your new employee feels part of the business and is up and running as quickly as possible will impact on their productivity...
Employee Surveys: How To Get Started
Employee surveys, employee engagement questionnaires, staff questionnaires or employee satisfaction surveys – call them what you will, but the end result is the same. The fact is, employee surveys are a great tool for harvesting feedback from staff and are a sure-fire...
Intranet Software: Helping You Achieve Your Business New Year’s Resolutions
Mention the phrase ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ and most of us automatically think of personal goals like getting fit, taking up a hobby or spending more time with the family. The New Year is certainly a time for reflection and new beginnings; however, it’s just as...
Health and Safety Forms: How To Meet Your Corporate Responsibilities
Managing workplace safety and health is often a major headache for businesses. Ensuring compliance as well as monitoring and reporting back to the authorities is a time consuming and laborious process. A company intranet, however, can make it a simplified, more...
How To Get A Raise: Essential Do’s And Don’ts
Do you feel as though your contributions are being undervalued by your employer? Are your peers earning more money than you? Do you believe you’re not being paid as much as you deserve? If the answers to these questions are yes, then what’s the best way to broach the...
Employee Motivation: Do You Know What Makes Your Staff Tick?
In today’s competitive marketplace, any advantage you can muster over the competition is worth investigating, right? Employee motivation and knowing how to get the best out of your workforce is one of those areas that can yield quite significant gains and yet it’s a...
Engaging Generation X: The Forgotten Generation
Squeezed between old school Baby Boomers and tech-savvy Millennials, Generation X is an oft-forgotten generation. Nowhere is this truer than in the workplace, where Generation X struggles to stay engaged in an era of heated political debate, rapidly changing...