Agile/Flexible Workplace Strategy
Understand where you are to determine where you will go
Work-Life Balance?
The battle of the mighty
The Normal Employee
Work and home are separate; or are they not?
Exit Interview
Listening to heart or mind
Agile/Flexible Workplace Strategy
Understand where you are to determine where you will go
Work-Life Balance?
The battle of the mighty
The Normal Employee
Work and home are separate; or are they not?
Exit Interview
Listening to heart or mind
We all know that flexible working arrangements bringmany positive benefits to an employee’s life includinga better work/life balance, greater job satisfaction,more autonomy, increased energy,creativity, motivation and morale. Flexible working gives employees greater ownership and control of their own time and working hours enabling them to manage their responsibilities outside of work. This can in turn reduce stress and anxiety for employees, who are struggling to balance their busy lives.
Open workspace design, collaboration design, agile workplaces, hoteling, hot desking – these are all workplace design strategies that you may be hearing as the workplace revolution changes how, when and where work is done.
Years ago, a friend of mine told me, that whatever is happening in his life, there is one thing for sure: every Tuesday and Thursday he would go play basketball with the boys. I was at the beginning of my career and working life, 100% work, 100% university and additional 100% managing a non-governmental organization. And, 10% of private life.
According to Statistics Canada, the average age of marriage is now 29 for women and 31 for men - no matter what your Tinder app stats are telling you. The average age for a couples' first child is well into their 30s.
Exit interviews are treated as an important activity in some organizations. However, many avoid or ignore it. One of the reasonsfor not taking it seriously could be a personal view or lack of organizational process toward employee lifecycle management and organizational development.
Paperwork used to be the bane of office personnel all over the world. With the advent of the computer and the Internet, many businesses people think that the paperless office has arrived.
Our research shows that more than 80% of managers in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)still use pen, paper and spreadsheets as their primary tools to handle workforce management. Those tools might seem like easy solutions, but the reality is that SMBs end up spending a great deal of time on internal administration rather than on business development, resulting in lost opportunities and money.
At the recent Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) annual conference I presented a session on data led organizational performance. In creating this presentation it made me think hard about the steps we go through to get the most out of our clients’ data. What struck me was that although there is much progress in the HR analytics space, companies will always face data quality issues.
Employee turnover can be highly detrimental to manufacturing organizations. The negative effects of high staff turnover include productivity losses, increased talent acquisition costs, and a significant impact on financial performance. Consequently, staff turnover can be a major problem for manufacturers, putting their business at risk.
For those of us who operate within the HR Analytics community, it is easy to get the impression that HR Analytics is everywhere because we surround ourselves with other analytics professionals within the corporate world and at conferences. Unfortunately, reality is quite the opposite of perception in this case. Numerous surveys presented in 2014 showed that a staggering 86% of companies reported no analytics capabilities in human resources.