Peace on Earth and Good Will to Workers
Thursday, 12. 22. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, HR Technology, Management Tips
We hosted an interesting tweet chat this week with an illustrious group of HR experts regarding their reflections on 2011 and predictions for 2012. We talked about a variety of issues that have been hot topics in 2011 and that will undoubtedly continue to be important in 2012: employee engagement, closing the skills gap between [...]
Would you (still) marry me?
Wednesday, 11. 30. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention
Today is my 26th wedding anniversary. At 6:30 this morning, my husband called me from the road to ask me to marry him. He’s done this every year since 1985, the year I clinched the best deal of my life. And every year I say yes.
This got me to musing about the fundamentals of human [...]
Avoiding Hiring Mistakes- and Recovering from Them
Tuesday, 06. 14. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Recruiting
I’ve seen a recent flurry of articles about strategies to avoid bad hires, perhaps in response to those oft-cited disengaged employees deciding that the economy has recovered enough that they can take a chance on a new position. In this blog post at Fistful of Talent from Steve Boese, Jonathan Kaplan, founder and [...]
Road Wage – Calling in Sick (of Commuting)
Monday, 04. 25. 2011 – Category: Absence Management, All Blog Posts, Employee Retention
Today’s cartoon highlights a finding from our latest survey regarding American workers who commute – 4% of whom indicate they’ve called in sick in order to avoid the rigors of their commute. For many more survey respondents (48%), their commute has a significant impact on their job satisfaction.
So what are employers supposed to do about [...]
Happy Employee Appreciation Day!
Wednesday, 07. 1. 2009 – Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention
We write here frequently about the benefits of expressing appreciation to your employees as a means of keeping them engaged, productive and committed to your organization. Today at Kronos, we all got a memo from our CEO, Aron Ain, putting that advice into practice. As is the case with most companies this year, resources have [...]
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