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According to Gartner, a staggering “91% of HR Leaders are concerned about employee turnover in the immediate future.” With recent changes to the labor market — we’re looking at you Covid-19 and The Great Resignation — this statistic isn’t surprising. What’s more surprising is that employee retention isn’t as tough to improve as you might think. In fact, Workforce Institute’s 2021 Retention Report revealed that up to two-thirds of departures may have been preventable. Toward a more precise definition of employee turnover Simply put, employee turnover is the number of employees replaced with new ..read more

Productivity vs. efficiency. Both are important metrics in any business. While often used interchangeably, there are key differences between the two, and neither is complete without the other. True productivity takes efficiency into account, and vice versa. This post explains productivity vs. efficiency and shows you how to combine them in analyzing business performance. What is productivity? Productivity is the raw measure of total output over a specific period of time. It takes only two things into account: how much was produced and the amount of time it took. If everything else remains the ..read more

When we “wear a lot of hats” at work, that means we have multiple jobs to do, depending on what’s needed at the moment. In today’s modern workplace, many of us ‘wear a lot of hats’ with pride, showing off our versatility and talent, solving a myriad of challenges, and making it look effortless. But it isn’t really effortless, is it? Quite often, multiple hat-wearers are stretched pretty thin.  One often-misunderstood department is internal communications (IC). Our hat rack is pretty full, though most people have no idea.  Internal communications professionals are veritable shape-shif ..read more

According to Gallup, the U.S. employee engagement slump continues. The ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees has been falling consistently since 2019, hitting a recent low in 2022 of just 1.9 to 1. For every 19 engaged employees who are out there giving a company their all, another 10 are actively working to undermine those efforts. On the surface, it might sound like the balance is in favor of engagement. After all, there are almost two engaged employees for every disengaged one. But Gallup has also reported that it takes 4 engaged employees to counteract the negative effects of a ..read more

Some people call them the “Sunday Scaries.” It’s that feeling in your stomach when you realize it’s Sunday night, House of the Dragon is over, and now you have to face the prospect of starting a new work week. You try to shake it off, realizing that wallowing in the same emotions every Sunday you used to feel on the last day of summer vacation is not only pointless but counterproductive. Monday, like Winter, is coming.  Satisfaction with our jobs, our companies, and the work we do is quite literally the point of job training, college, and the process of finding work. Since we all have to ..read more

Is a caring company born or created? When it comes to landing a place on PEOPLE Magazine’s Caring Companies list of 2022, one can wager this accomplishment requires a bit of both nature (having a caring mission at its core) and nurture (creating impactful activities) to even be considered a contender. One can also safely assume that there’s an amazing EX at play—and that it lives on an intranet that inspires community activism. We know this to be true, in fact. And we’re highlighting three companies on PEOPLE’s list that clearly demonstrate exceptional EX qualities and their corresponding good ..read more

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