Take a deep breath and imagine if you will that you’re an employee. We trust that won’t be too difficult for you to imagine, but we’re not here to judge. Now let’s say you’re an employee, a productive one at that (a big stretch for some), and you’ve just received a text from a sibling… Continue reading 7 Reasons Why Employees Return To Work Unengaged After Taking a Leave
As the old saying goes, a goal without a plan is just a wish. And as the much more recent saying goes, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. As a People Ops leader, you play a pivotal role in your org’s ability to effectively workforce plan and achieve the goals… Continue reading Simplify Your Workforce Planning by Simplifying Leave Management
Transparency. We all value it, but we’re not always sure why and it’s often not very clear how to achieve it. The implications of transparency in the workplace vary greatly depending on what clarity is being sought after. Transparency around salaries, for example, can have a litany of ripples that an organization must be prepared… Continue reading Boost Organizational Productivity Through a Transparent LOA Process
A manager may seem like a tangential component to a leave of absence, but there’s no denying that they play a vital role in leave efficacy. The more informed a manager is on the ins and outs (and do’s and don’ts) of leave, the higher the likelihood that your employees will have a positive leave… Continue reading Essential Materials for Managers to Ensure a Successful Employee Leave Experience
With time-machine technology still confined to the realm of science fiction, we’re well aware that if you’re reading this today you can’t enhance your leave-of-absence tracking yesterday since yesterday already happened. That said, technology does exist that makes leave of absence tracking and administration so easy you’ll think you’ve been teleported to the future. While… Continue reading Why You Should Shed Manual Leave Tracking Yesterday
“The promise of tech is often that it will eliminate, or make easier, the things that we simply don’t want to do. The things that make us feel less human.” – Aaron Delgaty, PhD., Practice Leader of Experience Research @ The Starr Conspiracy As the proliferation of technology marches onward and our lives become more… Continue reading 5 Ways “WorkTech” Empowers Employers to Embrace Humanity in the Digital Era
Shhhhh…hear that? If you need to turn down the volume on that episode of Schitt’s Creek you’re streaming in the background go ahead, but when it’s nice and quiet and you listen ever so closely you’ll hear it. It’s the subtle sound of employees grumbling over the experiences they’ve had while taking a leave of… Continue reading Is Your LOA Process A Silent Saboteur of Employee Experience?
“Employee happiness” is one of those ambiguous terms that most C-suites worry about but don’t quite understand how to influence. After all, every organization is unique in structure, workforce population, business objectives, and virtues, so when it comes to cultivating happiness in the workplace there are numerous factors to consider and potential levers to pull.… Continue reading How to Cultivate Employee Happiness for Unmatched Customer Satisfaction
There’s a reason why a leave of absence is described as “a journey.” It may start with a leave request, but from that moment on no two leaves have the same trajectory. They’re as unique and individual as the employee who requested it and the circumstances of the leave can change at a moment’s notice.… Continue reading How Tech Can Elevate Employee Engagement and Productivity After Coming Back From Leave
Nimble. Agile. Small but mighty. Flexible. Efficient. Punching above their weight. Dynamic. These words and phrases are often used to describe small teams within an organization that are asked to do a lot with a little, or in some cases nothing at all. And while hearing descriptors like this ad nauseam might diminish their meaning… Continue reading Tactics for Small HR Teams to Spark Joy in the Workplace
