For companies with diverse global footprints, attracting and retaining the right kind of talent at each location can be a tricky problem to tackle. Imagine trying to strategically plan and execute an employer brand for the world’s largest travel and tourism company with 67,000 employees and 1,600 travel agencies around the world. How do you…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
Employee engagement is a workplace philosophy which aims to make employees focused, motivated, and happy, rather than just treating them as expendable worker drones. The principle is that by improving work conditions and prioritizing staff happiness, employees will be more committed to their job and therefore become higher performers. This means a business runs more…
Sponsored by Workopolis: If done properly, performance reviews can be a fantastic way to boost employee engagement and productivity, both of which go a long way towards addressing retention issues. Of course, this is all easier said than done. Giving a performance review, especially for an under-performing employee, can be uncomfortable and challenging. It’s often,…
It’s 2017. The year when cars started to drive by themselves, hamburgers can be made in a factory and Alexa is ruling your home environment. This might sound like a science fiction movie to you but we are at the cusp of something bigger than we have ever imagined. We’re going to dive into the…
How do you win the war for talent? A question all the top dogs continue to ask themselves and one of the biggest issues facing the industry. In the eyes of a futurist, it’s all about the employee experience. To win the war you need to give employees the workspaces they want, the tools they crave…
There are a number of ways you can define diversity, but it is primarily defined as the inclusion of different types of things or people. It also means allowing many ideas and opinions to form freely about something. Diversity to me is embracing difference in all types of ways not just skin color. In our working environment,…
Wearable technology has the ability to transform the workplace. The data derived from it can help us gain a better understanding of what we do and how we can do it better. Wearable tech is already used by millions of people worldwide, primarily helping them to better manage their fitness, sleep, and health. In the workplace,…
HR and recruiting departments know the value of retaining an employee vs. finding a new one. However, many companies focus more on improving their recruiting measures than they do on keeping the employees they already have. Unfortunately, there are many problems in the workplace that can contribute to employee turnover. Up to 80 percent of…
I recently read an interesting article about an employee who took a job at a company with less-than-favorable working conditions. Once he tired of the toxic work culture and decided to move on, he put in his two weeks’ notice, only to have his manager reject it. Instead, she took his resignation as a personal…