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4 Ways Employee Happiness Will Save Costs For Your Company

4 Ways Employee Happiness Will Save Costs For Your Company

People spend 3/4th of their waking hours at their workplace and that’s huge. Several studies have shown that employees want more than just a salary. At the most basic level, today’s employees seek a good social work environment, purpose in their jobs, a place to voice their thoughts openly, acceptance of the way they are and like to feel valued, Here are some actions that can immediately increase the happiness level among your employees and improve your bottom line:

How Safe is Your Workplace?

How Safe is Your Workplace?

The onus of creating a safe and positive work culture is often on the leaders and managers of the organisation. But when it comes to realising this goal, most leaders and managers often feel overwhelmed about workplace safety and behavioural issues, some of which extend beyond physical office boundaries and also spread over the digitally connected workplace of today. In this blog, let’s look at various kinds of situations where power-play is evident. Such behaviours are red flags that can lead to making workplaces unsafe & unhealthy:

5 Ingredients For Internal Communication In A Hybrid Workplace

5 Ingredients For Internal Communication In A Hybrid Workplace

Internal communication has always been crucial for engaging the workforce and ensuring alignment with the company’s core goals and philosophy. While it’s one thing to have the opportunity to interact with people and drive a message, it’s another thing to drive it in a virtual workspace. Whether your whole workforce works remotely or it’s just a few members of staff, here are some ways to amplify your internal communication for the hybrid work environment.

Best Practices For An Ideal Virtual Training Programme

Best Practices For An Ideal Virtual Training Programme

Organisations of all sizes have swiftly found themselves having to transfer and deliver what was once live, in-person, training seemingly overnight into online formats. However, just because virtual is possible doesn’t mean that all training has to be converted into virtual training. Having trained hundreds of individuals via live and online training from the start of the pandemic, we have had our share of learning. Here we have compiled some things that organisations should keep in mind to implement a good virtual training programme:

Roadblocks To Effective Teamwork And Ways To Overcome Them

Roadblocks To Effective Teamwork And Ways To Overcome Them

The virtual work environment is here to stay long-term. Over the last two years, people have had so many challenges dealing with a work-from-home environment. A big sufferer in all this, no doubt, has been the team. Over time, we have identified a few bottlenecks to smooth teamwork in the remote work environment and have outlined solutions that can help you set it right.

6 Reasons Why You Need the Hybrid Work Environment Policy

6 Reasons Why You Need the Hybrid Work Environment Policy

As vaccinations are expected to slowly make life limp back to normal, it seems like hybrid work models are evolving – which allow employees the option of choosing their place of work – at a physical office, or work from home or a combination of both. The reality is the “normal” we were used to is never going to come back, and this “normal” will vary from company to company. If you’re not among those who are already acting on it, here are 6 reasons why it’s important to prepare a hybrid work environment policy.

5 Steps to Create the Perfect Team Work Schedule

5 Steps to Create the Perfect Team Work Schedule

Even under normal circumstances, a perfect work schedule is something managers strive for. It’s even more relevant currently with the ongoing pandemic – when everybody is juggling not only with multiple responsibilities but also switching between home responsibilities and work and struggling to achieve a good work-life balance. The following steps will help create an effective workflow suited to your organisation and your teams.