Construction
6 key people challenges in the construction industry – and how you can fix them
The construction industry is facing unique workforce challenges. A perfect storm created by Covid, Brexit, IR35, an ageing workforce, and the cost-of-living crisis has seen the number of employees in the sector consistently fall over the past few years. This has resulted in a war for talent and a battle of retention.
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
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
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
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.
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