The Importance of Offering an Employee Satisfaction Survey
How would you define an engaged workforce? You might say it’s an environment where everyone involved feels valued and supported. Workplace engagement is a crucial aspect of business success. In fact, it’s so imperative that employee engagement has been shown to affect metrics like productivity, retention, and customer service. However, unfortunately, recent statistics indicate that […]
5 Tips for Attracting, Engaging and Retaining Gen Z
Gen Z is a generation like no other, and in order to maintain your business, you’ll need to think about how you can accommodate the up-and-coming workforce. How does Gen Z feel about work? Surveys have found that 54% of Gen Zers are often disengaged at work. Meanwhile, 68% of Gen Z workers feel stressed […]
Preventing Workplace Violence: What’s New
The first and most obvious step in preventing workplace violence is to understand its meaning. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, workplace violence is “any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site.” This type of behavior falls into four categories: Criminal […]
What to Know about Onboarding New Employees
Do you want to help your new employees have a positive experience, setting them up for long-term success? Onboarding is a comprehensive process that can last up to 12 months. How it’s handled is crucial to ensuring high retention. In addition to sharing the job requirements and describing team dynamics, you can help new hires […]
Too Many Meetings
In 2017, the Harvard Business Review published a survey that highlighted an uncomfortable truth: 71% of respondents regard meetings as a sheer waste of time. An all-too-typical tale illustrates the absurdity. One meeting organizer routinely distributed slide decks for every subteam in a department to review in advance. When members dutifully showed up, she just […]
Head’s Up: Mandatory EEOC Report Due Soon
Being a business owner often means filling out forms, and the IRS and Department of Labor aren’t the only government entities you have to work with. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants information too — from companies with more than 100 employees. (Lower thresholds may apply to government contractors.) Businesses must provide details about the […]
Noncompete Agreements To Be Outlawed — Maybe
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule banning virtually all noncompete agreements. It takes effect 120 days after publication in the Federal Register, which probably means an effective date sometime around the end of August. The rule prohibits employers from enforcing noncompetes with workers other than senior executives as of […]
Steps to Take When an Employee Leaves
There are many reasons why employees quit: They feel their salary is too low. They don’t see a clear career track or professional development opportunities. They want more flexibility at work and in their personal lives. They don’t feel valued or appreciated for their efforts and skills. How you respond when someone quits makes a […]
Effective Employee Performance Reviews
Performance reviews often feel like a one-way, top-down process in which you, the boss, are judge and jury. But if reviews are instead a two-way street, employees feel significantly less defensive. How do you create this two-way process? Let’s look at some ideas. First, you might ask the employee to write a self-evaluation prior to the review. […]