Tag: employee experience

September 29, 2023

For organizations exploring ways to improve employee growth, engagement and retention, promotions aren’t a sure thing. New analysis from the ADP Research Institute’s quarterly Today at Work report finds that 29 percent of people who received their first promotion left […]

July 31, 2023

Custom Assembly Inc. is as serious about employee satisfaction as it is about customer satisfaction. Family-owned since 1988, the Haviland, Ohio-based company has 430 employees spread across its home state and seven additional states. It has long realized that happy […]

July 10, 2023

You’ve heard of the employee experience, but what is it, exactly, and why is it important? How do you define the employee experience, identify its components and create an experience that meets the wants and needs of your organization and […]

May 9, 2023

Compensation is one of today’s hottest HR topics, as pay transparency laws, inflation, and talent shortages impact employers nationwide. Lisa Shuster from iHire, explains how to offer competitive, equitable salaries while proactively preventing pay compression. What recession? A recent iHire […]

January 19, 2023

Employers have recognized the concerns and changes within HR over the last few years and have shifted their priorities during these uncertain times. HR managers believe burnout has serious consequences for employee retention, but according to CareerBuilder, 61% of workers […]

November 15, 2022

Any HR leader will tell you that maintaining employee engagement amongst a distributed workforce has been a massive challenge. After all, HR has to tiptoe a fine line between meeting employees’ ever-changing needs in a remote world and ensuring the […]

August 29, 2022

I can’t quite get Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 song out of my head (by the way, I added the question mark for reasons I will get to in a minute) since reading a May 12, 2022, article in the Wall Street […]

May 4, 2022

Sometimes, peak employee experience entails staged murders and cactus showcases. Sittercity’s Chief People Officer Erin Yarnall described for HR Dive those and other ways her employees cook up virtual fun amid a pandemic. Along with “succulent nights” and the tech […]

February 11, 2021

I attended my first professional baseball game in July of 1975. The Boston Red Sox traveled to the dearly departed Milwaukee County Stadium to face the Brewers. Hank Aaron was in the final years of his Hall of Fame career […]

December 14, 2020

Asking for feedback and acting on it is the single most important thing companies can do to improve their employee experience as well as the company’s ability to adapt and thrive. This has always been a key ingredient for good […]

July 21, 2020

As agile continues to be applied to areas and functions outside of IT, HR leaders hope to capture benefits for their own function, such as improved alignment to organizational priorities and rapid changes, as well as better, more relevant support. […]

January 24, 2020

As companies prioritize the employee experience, making career development part of the process can be a boost for talent retention and employee experience, according to a recent CareerAddict survey. A notable majority of the workers polled (82%) said they would […]

October 15, 2019

Did you arrive at this article through a Google internet search for the term “employee engagement?” That wouldn’t be surprising, as the number of such searches has increased by a factor of 1,000 in the past 15 years, indicating the […]

September 3, 2019

Having high levels of employee engagement is a goal many employers strive for. In that pursuit, many employers find they need to look for ways to improve the overall employee experience (EX), which, in turn, improves morale, satisfaction, engagement, retention, […]

July 26, 2019

The digital age has introduced new technologies to consumers, and in doing so, has changed expectations for companies and brands. We use our phones to check the weather, buy online, read emails or video chat with a friend across the […]

July 5, 2019

One area of the employee experience where organizations and employees agree is the future. Businesses hire employees hoping they will stay with them over time. And, employees want to know they have a future with the organization. This means that […]

June 27, 2019

A satisfied and happy staff contributes greatly to business growth. Your investment in employee empowerment to enhance the employee experience will pay off tenfold. Rigidity Leads to Division Many businesses impose rigid conditions on the amount of freedom staff is […]

June 18, 2019

Due to a tightening labor market, employees have more options and are switching jobs to ones that accommodate diversity in lifestyles — jobs where they have opportunities to grow and advance their careers. To retain their high performing talent, organizations […]

June 10, 2019

What would you do if you could predict how key milestones along the employee experience would play out? How would seeing the future help your human resources team, and your business overall, perform better? The employee experience starts from candidacy, […]

June 7, 2019

As businesses increasingly shift to digital business models, human resources business partners must be equipped to support new and emerging needs. Human resources business partners (HRBPs) accounted for 28% of HR head count and 19% of HR expenses in 2018 […]