Retention
When onboarding fails!
New-hire attrition is an ongoing issue, with up to 20 percent of new hires leaving within the first 45 days of their new role and 33 percent leaving after just six months. With the average cost of recruiting a new employee in the UK £3,000 , seeing a third of your new hires leaving so soon, can be both costly and disruptive.
Productivity & Performance
Why does company culture matter?
There are many approaches your organisation can take to win the war for talent , where, in the modern day, talented candidates that are the right fit are hard to find and just as equally hard to keep. But ultimately, the approach that attracts and retains the modern worker above all is how they see, experience, and interpret the company culture. But this is often overlooked. Failure to compose a thought-through culture plan and/or allowing it to form naturally is therefore a huge mistake to...
Employee Engagement
Pulse surveys and the power of leading data
Pulse surveys are a great tool for organisations to gain employee feedback, and they’re becoming increasingly popular as a result. Traditionally, it was a very common business practice to only issue employee surveys annually. However, a recent shift in the need for regular employee listening has meant that surveys need to be relayed more frequently.
Retention
6 actionable tips to improve retention and recruitment
Employee wants and needs change all the time – this isn’t anything new. However, where the pandemic has accelerated this, it has thrust the importance of the employee experience into the limelight more than ever before.
Retention
Could onboarding and exit surveys be the key to ‘winning the talent war’?
In today’s world, where the work environment is continually changing, it makes quality candidates hard to find, and just as equally hard to retain. According to recent data from the Office of National Statistics, the number of job vacancies available in the UK rose to a new record of 1,300,000 between March to May 2022, revealing just how high the competition is for talented employees. A talent war is among us!
Employee Engagement
Leading a hybrid team – the new expectations
As we continue to navigate out of the pandemic and settle into the new ‘normal’ of our working lives, it’s clear to see that hybrid working is here to stay. With the many benefits of either remote or hybrid working being felt – from saving time on a daily commute, general costs savings, and increased time spent with family – it is easy to see why more employees than ever are pushing for their organisations to commit to a long-term hybrid team working model. Hybrid working is now being driven by employee demand not employer preferences.
Employee Engagement
How Human Resources can influence its leadership teams
2022 is bringing a greater focus on leadership teams than ever before. In times of uncertainty, everyone in an organisation turns towards their leaders, so it’s not really a huge surprise.
Employee Engagement
Know why your people quit – before it becomes too late…
Imagine that, in an idle moment, you’re looking at your company-issued smart phone and you see an advert for a job on LinkedIn that seems to be right up your street. You click on that link, and you start to make an application and that’s when your boss appears in front of your desk (yes for a change you are in an office) and says “I can see you’ve clicked onto LinkedIn Jobs but before you go any further, can I talk to you about how you’re doing and the opportunities available to you here?” Amazi
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity in leadership and why it matters
As society evolves, we’ve seen an increasing need to ensure that organisations and, in particular, leadership of those organisations, keep up with changes. This has never been more apparent when it comes to diversity and inclusion. And the studies are clear – diversity and inclusion, especially in leadership, is paramount to success.
Our Platform/Tech
Questions to answer when launching an engagement survey
Whether you’re about to embark on your first or your 31 st employee engagement survey , the way you communicate about it in the lead up to launch can make or break its success. Think about who it is that needs to be bought into the survey and its purpose. Leaders, managers, employees… Let’s just summarise it as everyone. For the most successful survey, everyone in your business should be aware of the intent and purpose of it.
Wellbeing
The Great Resignation - How do you stop your employees leaving?
The Great Resignation doesn’t appear to be slowing down, with latest research revealing that almost a fifth of UK workers have said they expect to leave their current job for a new employer in the next 12 months. Plus, according to the CIPD , the rate of job-to-job moves stands at 3.2 per cent which is a record high. And so, managing with an ever-depleting workforce is a challenge many business and HR leaders are currently battling with. And they are simultaneously trying to figure out why their people are leaving so that the exodus can be slowed. Here’s how you can reduce the likelihood of your employees leaving.
Retention
Why you shouldn’t solely focus on negative survey results
Conducting employee surveys is an incredibly insightful method to understand what is important to your people. At the same time, it’s also very easy to put a microscope over the negative employee feedback received, and primarily focus on how this can be actioned first. Whilst it’s imperative that negative feedback is not ignored, but addressed and actioned in good time, it’s also important to pay close attention to the positive survey results received for the following reasons:
Employee Engagement
Is hybrid working? - Being flexible as an employer
In theory, hybrid working offers the best of all worlds for the employer and employee. It combines pre Covid-19 patterns of office-based working, with remote days, into an overall working schedule that allows both for in-person collaboration, team building, and productive work at a work location. This, as well as the opportunity for employees to carry out more focussed work when they need to be at home too.
Employee Engagement
Communication with employees on parental leave
As September 2021 drew closer and my big pregnant tummy grew larger, I was both excited and nervous about what challenges the next few months, years, and the rest of my life(!) would hold. Not least meeting my new baby and adjusting to life as a new mum, but also how this would impact my role and career development whilst on parental leave.
Employee Engagement
The importance of using open-ended questions in your surveys
When conducting any employee engagement survey , considering the way your questions are structured is essential. If you ask the right questions, you will be provided with actionable and insightful data. Ask the wrong ones, and you could end up finding out very little from your workforce and possibly even leave them feeling a bit miffed! There are typically two types of questions in an employee survey – open-ended questions and closed questions.
Employee Engagement
4 steps to help your people managers increase their team engagement
We are all human, so there’s no way we can be 100% engaged with our work and at the top of our game every single day, all day. Great managers though, will know exactly how to encourage team engagement and to keep employees performing their best whenever it is possible to do so.
Employee Engagement
The top employee engagement drivers that your organization should prioritize
If you’re looking to measure your employee engagement and experience levels, you are going to need to focus on specific employee engagement drivers to get both accurate and fair results.
Employee Engagement
How to communicate your employee survey results - A step-by-step guide
Surveying your staff – especially on a more frequent basis – is one of the most effective ways to gain insights on what is and isn’t working well in your business, as well as how your staff are feeling in their roles. But once you get your employee survey results back, the big question is ‘how are you supposed to communicate them?’ Selecting the right questions and sending out the survey is just half the battle; the real work begins now…
Employee Engagement
5 tips for building your culture in a hybrid workforce
With many organisations seeing the employee benefits of working from home during the Covid-19 lockdowns, they have now opted to continue with this new way of working, but it is not without its challenges. While technology proved to be one of the biggest struggles for companies during the start of the pandemic, the concern has now shifted to company culture and how you are supposed to maintain it well with a hybrid workforce.
Wellbeing
The importance of supporting mental health in the workplace
In January, we were kindly asked by BizSpace – the UK’s leading provider of regional flexible workspace (where our HQ is located) – if we wanted to invite two members of staff to go on a mental health first aid course to help with supporting those struggling with mental health in the workplace. As a company whose primary objective is to improve the working lives of millions of people, in which mental health plays a huge part, we, of course, jumped at the opportunity.
Employee Engagement
What impact has the Great Resignation, and the wider ramifications of the pandemic, had on employees’ attitudes to reward and benefits?
In the WorkBuzz State of Employee Engagement 2021 research, we spoke to 300+ organisational and HR leaders. The research uncovered many things we had seen coming from the opinions of employees themselves, in the thousands of employee surveys we run.
Wellbeing
Easy initiatives you can implement to support employee well-being
In a recent WorkBuzz research paper , ‘employee well-being’ was cited as a key priority for HR professionals and business leaders, with the research revealing that nine in 10 HR professionals considered ‘supporting well-being’ as being more important to existing and prospective employees compared to 12 months ago.
Business & Professional Services
Developing leaders with the key skills needed for a new generation of hybrid workers
When the first lockdown took place, most organisations were caught off guard, having to react fast. Many employees were forgiving, understanding this was new territory. And with office-based employees working from home, it was arguably easer to lead. With clear priorities, leaders had to focus on how to equip their teams for remote working, focus on making their communications clear, and ensure their businesses were resilient enough to survive.
Employee Engagement
Employee engagement has declined by 50% in organisations with no D&I initiative
Organizations without EDIB initiatives have seen a 50% decline in employee engagement, while those progressing in their journey report higher engagement levels. Learn more in the State of Employee Engagement report by WorkBuzz. Download now.
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