It is a known fact that company culture is very important to keep employees happy. It is also a known fact that every company has a culture, just like every person has a personality. Nowadays, when people are searching for jobs, they no longer just focus on salary and benefits; they also consider the company’s culture. After all, the workplace is where adults spend most of their time, outside of their own home
Read MoreHere at Dominion we have a small group of payroll and HR experts who make up what we call our Dominion University team. The four of them get together and, in addition to their primary job duties, research the hottest topics in the HR world and teach classes to the rest of us so we’re always up to date on what’s going on. Last week our Product Strategist, Claire Manz, gave a presentation on employee garnishments, which ranged from tax levies to Friend of the Court payments. While this isn’t exactly a hot topic, she felt it was pertinent to teach because so many people don’t understand what they actually mean. I figured if we could muster up enough interest here in the office, I’m sure I could do the same in the digital HR world.
Read MoreCompany meetings always seem to be a popular topic of conversation, largely due to the fact that nobody enjoys them and yet we’re constantly holding them. The average white collar employee attends sixty meetings every month, each lasting an average of two hours. According to a recent study, less than half of these meetings end up yielding productive results, which equates to a total of four full working days each employee is spending in fruitless meetings every month. That’s four days your employees could be spending doing literally anything else. Needless to say, this is costing businesses everywhere a lot of money. Luckily there are a number of things you can do to cut the extraneous costs of these meetings and save some time in the process.
Read MoreI was only 21 years old when I started my career. To me, retirement was not even on my radar given that it was over 40 years out. It wasn’t until one of my coworkers talked to me about the importance of starting a retirement fund early that I actually gave it some serious thought. As insignificant as it may seem, that conversation is one I think of often. I’m grateful that someone cared enough to help me prepare for my future and ensure that I will someday be able to retire. If you’re not talking to your employees about the importance of having a retirement savings account in place, you may be losing out on an important piece of employee retention and engagement.
Read MoreHappiness at work matters. When employees are comfortable and engaged at their workplace, they are productive in return. Employee engagement is the emotional and functional commitment an employee has to the company they work for. Employee happiness, or engagement, has been an important topic over the years, but do companies really understand the impact it can have on them? The truth is that unhappy employees can cost companies thousands of dollars, so it is imperative for employers to do their best to keep employees happy. Dale Carnegie and MSW did a study on over 1500 employees, and they found some very interesting statistics. Did you know that only 29% of employees are engaged, 45% are not engaged, and 26% are actively disengaged? This means that a total of 71% of employees are not fully engaged at work! The following are some of the main causes for unhappy and disengaged employees and how to resolve them:
Read MoreEmployee engagement has literally become a full-time job in some organizations. You have companies such as Google and Twitter, who offer their employees free meals, massages, haircuts, and so on, which isn’t attainable for most small to medium sized businesses. There is good news, though! You don’t have to offer all of those perks to attract and retain talent; actually, there are quite a few things you can do in order to keep your employees happy at little to no cost to you.
Read MoreAssuming the responsibility of hiring a new person is exciting, rewarding, and slightly terrifying, all at the same time. In the current job market, there is so much more to do than study a resume and conduct an interview. Unstructured interviews are seemingly disappearing and being taken over by more standard practices that will give further insight to how an individual will actually perform on the job, and rightfully so. It is no secret that you want to like the person you’ll be working with, but asking questions about what a candidate likes to do in their spare time, or where they enjoy vacationing, isn’t doing your organization any favors.
Read MoreHave you ever had a job where it seemed like every day was a bad day? That caring about your work was a waste of energy and you were simply exhausted all the time. Perhaps you felt like the majority of your day was spent on doing tasks that you either found exceedingly dull or overwhelming and that you never got praise or appreciation for your work. If this sounds like something you’ve experienced before, or perhaps are experiencing currently, you know what it’s like to burn out at work. A survey conducted by Morar Consulting in November of 2016 stated that 95% of HR leaders connect burnout to low retention rates.
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