How much do you trust your staff and why does it matter? Trust affects the bottom line — the way you treat employees is the way they will treat customers.
Despite good intentions to keep employees apprised of merger or acquisition stages, the uncertainty that follows such news usually scares workers. The HR department can play a crucial role in helping the process go as smoothly as possible.
Improving employee morale is essential to greater profitability, says one workplace expert. Another warns that layoff worries can drive down productivity.
The 2002 elections saw not only an increasing number of employers mobilizing their employees to vote, but also a movement to show employees where candidates stood on issues important to the company, Bloomberg News reports.
What's the purpose of an employee publication? Ask Erik Battenberg, news editor for Bank One’s award-winning publication, The Wire, and he'll tell you it’s important to provide employees with news that interests them and makes their work easier.
Between the high cost of gasoline, the high cost of car insurance, the stress and delays of sitting in traffic, and worries about the environment, employees have plenty of motivation to change their commuting habits. And there are a number of ways employers can help them.
Some business experts tout telecommuting as a way to boost the American economy. Why? Because regular commuting robs employees of time and energy that could be put to more productive use.
A coalition of nine major corportations marked Labor Day 2002 by releasing a study showing that in the modern American workplace, only 17 percent of workers don't do some portion of their work from a distance.
As Latino immigration transforms much of the U.S., more Americans find themselves confronted in the workplace by Spanish, now the nation's second-most-spoken language. In response, a small but growing number of workers are trying to learn at least "survival Spanish."
Once union organizing has begun, trying to avoid an election is a little like
closing the barn door after the cows have escaped. Therefore, creating a work
environment where staff members feel valued and well compensated may prevent
disgruntled employees from organizing in the first place.
