Remote work and technology issues: How do we ensure tech equity for all?
While there have been plenty of positives worth shouting about, the transition to telecommuting for many over the past year has hit its share of snags along the way. Following on from last week’s piece on some communication challenges when working remote, let’s
Three less obvious elements that help create effective employee engagement
For our recent ‘HRD Guide to Employee Engagement in a Digital-First World’ our in-house People Science team joined forces with a number of our customers and some leading HR experts to dive into the nuts and bolts of employee engagement. One hot topic
It’s good to talk: Has remote working impacted our ability to communicate well?
With everything going on over the last year or so, there’s been a lot to say on the topic of working remotely. It’s enabled countless businesses to keep things running through multiple lockdowns, and has worked wonders for productivity and work-life balance of
Tools of the trade: Employee surveys vs employee check-ins
For those who can build and leverage employee engagement, it can make all the difference in the world, to the extent that highly engaged businesses can see more than twice the productivity of organisations with low engagement. When it comes to assessing employee engagement
5 key lockdown lessons for work in 2021
To say that the last twelve months have been tumultuous would be massively underselling it. Even for those of us who weren’t furloughed, the pandemic turned our working lives upside down. Your daily commutes? Gone. Grabbing a coffee with your teammates? Never gonna
Why HR teams in 2021 need to have a “digital-first” approach to everything!
When you work in HR, there’s an obscene number of plates to keep spinning. To help keep on top of everything from wellbeing to disputes, progressive HR teams have adopted a digital-first way of thinking and working. Yet with one recent study showing
The role of diversity in your workplace mentorship programme.
Often in both our home and work lives we can become stuck in a rut, simply spinning our wheels and making no forward progress. In work (and perhaps outside too) one sure-fire way to help get moving again is with
The importance of employee buy-in for any HR technology rollout
Employee buy-in and adoption are essential for the long-term success of any technology rollout in any business. Many new workplace tools fail to live up to expectation, dying a quick death after the initial excitement of rollout. This often comes
Asynchronous communication in remote work and why it matters
Remote working has really been catching on over the past. 5 years, and for a number of reasons (from huge tech improvements to global health crises) is now a fixture for many businesses out there. Yes, the impact of COVID-19
Does performance management have a brand issue?
If you have an in-house marketing team, go ask them the impact negative brand equity can have on a business. A good brand shapes the way in which people see and feel about a certain product, service or process. But