Employee Relations
How to Respond as an Employer to possible Employee Substance Abuse in the workplace
As an employer, it’s essential to maintain a productive and safe work environment for all employees. One of the challenges that companies face is the possibility of employee substance abuse in the workplace. Workplace substance abuse problems can pose significant risks, not only to the employee’s well-being but also to the safety, morale, and overall…
Read MoreHot Desking vs Desk Hoteling: Which is the Better Hybrid Office Workplace Environment?
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more companies have transitioned to hybrid office workplace environments, and this shift seems likely to remain in place in some form even after the current health crisis has passed. Many of these hybrid work arrangements involve employees spending some of their time working remotely and some…
Read MoreThe other COVID side effect: The Great Employee Resignation
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US workers are voluntarily quitting their jobs at record-breaking rates across almost all segments of the economy. The numbers are staggering; in the month of August alone, 4.3 million people – around 2.9 percent of the workforce – voluntarily quit their jobs in the US. This great employee…
Read MoreHow to do successful Virtual Employee Onboarding during COVID-19
Successful virtual employee onboarding has become the most crucial part of the hiring process during the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual employee onboarding has become a requirement for organizations that now rely on a partially or completely remote workforce. However, the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic era have revealed that many companies are ill-prepared to conduct virtual…
Read MoreWorking in a COVID-19 World: The New Normal
COVID-19 has created a new normal for how we work. You might be working from a new home office setup or you may have gone back to work at your company office that now has some form of dividers and/or physical distance separation. In either new COVID-19 workplace scenario there are issues and concerns that…
Read MoreWorkforce Challenges & Opportunities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented employers and HR professionals with significant workforce challenges (and some opportunities) that need to be reckoned with and considered. For example, under the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, many business owners have turned to work-from-home staffing strategies to keep their employees safe and their companies running. For many companies, this…
Read MoreHow to Handle a Good Employee with a Bad Attitude
If you have an underperforming employee who has a toxic attitude that is contaminating the rest of your staff, the solution is simple: find a replacement and fire him. But if that employee is one of your best workers, firing him may not be the best approach if you want to maintain your team’s productivity…
Read MoreAnalyzing the Impact of the Workplace Anxiety Epidemic
Anxiety disorders are the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses in America, affecting more than 40 million adults (nearly one in five) and costing more than $42 billion in health care annually. Stress from family life, finances, and relationships often cause people to experience feelings of anxiety, but workplace anxiety may be an overlooked issue. American…
Read MoreHow Prepared Are You for Internal Employee Conflicts?
In a perfect world, all of your employees would get along with each other, they would never have a dispute with management, and your workplace would run as peacefully as a church sermon. Unfortunately, when large groups of people interact with each other for 40 or more hours per week, employee conflicts are bound to…
Read MoreHow to Deal with Employee Resignations
There’s nothing you can do about it – employee resignations are an inevitability in business life. No matter how great your workplace is, no matter how many perks and benefits you offer, some of your employees will leave for any number of reasons. Perhaps they found a better job opportunity. Maybe they need to take…
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