Employee Relations

Gallup: Employee engagement hits lowest level in 10 years

01/21/2025

Employee engagement in the United States dropped to 31% in 2024, a 10-year low, according to research by the Gallup Poll. Declines since 2020 alone mean about 8 million fewer engaged employees, including 3.2 million fewer than in 2023.

5 ways to tackle retention in 2025

01/15/2025

The storm on the horizon may be fierce, but it is navigable if you are skilled and ready. To provide stability in an unstable world, leaders must commit to action. Here is my “to-do” list for the future.

7 tips to make your meetings more productive

01/13/2025

Between vague agendas and never-ending Zoom sessions, meetings have become a waste of time for many. Here’s how to structure huddles to make them productive and run more smoothly.

Measure productivity loss when tallying health costs

01/13/2025

The costliest illnesses to insure aren’t necessarily the ones that take the biggest chunk out of your bottom line. When measuring how much money your organization sinks into employee health, don’t stop once you’ve calculated your share of employees’ insurance premiums.

Weigh pros and cons before you approve a performance-improvement plan

12/23/2024

When performance-improvement plans work, everyone wins. But when PIPs are used to justify terminations, they sometimes cause more problems than they solve. Poorly applied, they create legal liability.

How to manage remote workers with eroded social skills

12/20/2024

A study of 1,000 remote workers uncovered critical insights into the interpersonal challenges of digital work environments. The statistics paint a stark picture of social skill erosion.

SHRM: Organizational culture is key to retention

12/09/2024

Workers who say their employers foster a good or excellent organizational culture tend to stay put, according to new research by the Society for Human Resource Management.

5 strategies to make on-site return-to-office mandates work

12/09/2024

Today, just 34% of the workforce is in-office for most of the week. Less than half of employers —48%—require staff be on-site for two to three days a week. Only 4% require employees to be on-site four days a week.

Young workers want to be digital nomads

12/02/2024

Currently, 16% of the 1,000 Gen Zers and 11% of millennials surveyed consider themselves digital nomads, which Howdy.com defines as “living abroad and/or traveling for long periods of time while working remotely.”

Employee turnover: What leaders need to know about the real costs

11/06/2024

When leadership expert and trainer Kevin Eikenberry examines employee turnover with leaders, the implications stretch beyond filling empty positions. While many organizations hope economic conditions will eventually solve their retention problems, Eikenberry warns that burying your head in the sand is not a good strategy—especially when considering the true financial impact of turnover.