You’ve invested in new tech, sent round the doughnuts and painstakingly organised the Friday pub quiz. But something is still missing! Yes, your team seems happy but...not all that motivated or interested in what’s happening in your business. Why is that?
Employee engagement could be the missing link!
Why Employee Engagement Is Important
Employee engagement…
Employee engagement has very recently become a HR buzzword we can’t stop talking about. Why? Well, a boatload of research has shown that high levels of employee engagement leads to tangible results for businesses. But there’s something else too. A whopping 66% of employees the world over are disengaged. Worse still, here in the UK…
Amazingly, digital employee experience platforms are a relatively new concept. While employee engagement platforms have been popular for quite a few years now, the notion of an employee experience platform was really first explored in 2019 by Josh Bersin.
But what exactly is an employee experience platform? And how is it different from the employee engagement…
During the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games, gymnast Simone Biles shocked the world when she pulled out of both the team final and women’s individual all-around to focus on her mental health. Her decision to do whatever was needed to safeguard her health and wellbeing divided opinion. While some commented that her bold move was a…
The way we work is changing. In recent years, technology has given us more freedom over where, how and when we can work. Perhaps more importantly, our collective work mindset has shifted, forced in no small part by the unprecedented events of 2020. Now, more than ever, many employees and organisations are embracing the notion…
Believe it or not, many of us experience gamification almost every single day. Once confined to games consoles, gamification has grown legs thanks to the rise of smartphones and tablets and now has its tendrils wrapped around many of our day-to-day interactions, particularly in relation to technology.
Loyalty programs that reward customers points with each purchase…
Company culture is another one of those buzzwords that often gets thrown around when we talk about employee engagement and experience. But if you ask Google (or your preferred search engine) what company culture actually means; it seems the jury is out on a definitive definition.
The Balance Careers blog offers this explanation : …
The employee experience is the journey an employee takes from recruitment to exit interview. It starts the moment someone sees a job advert and and continues until their last day in the business.
While the length of each digital employee experience will vary, by and large the touchpoints within the journey are the same or similar.…
Employee experience is a hot topic of late. And rightly so! After all, employees form the beating heart of any and all organisations. Why on earth wouldn’t we want to spend more time making sure they get the best experience?
Many HR departments are looking to improve the digital employee experience for better engagement and…
Hybrid working is rapidly becoming the norm for many workplaces the world over. This is, in part, due to the pandemic, which opened a lot of people's eyes as to what the future of work could look like for them. A recent Return To The Workplace Survey found that 47% of employees say…
Millennials in the workplace are a hot topic right now. These individuals, born between 1981 and 1996, are thought to be the most powerful generation for companies around the world at the moment, and in 2016 they became the largest generation in the US labour force , and it was predicted that they would represent 50%…
While many definitions of employee empowerment refer to the term as an action undertaken by a business, the truth is that employee empowerment is a feeling. When someone feels empowered, they possess "the knowledge, confidence, means, or ability to do things or make decisions" for themselves.
Employee empowerment refers to how employees feel when they have…