Employee engagement is simply - “the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization.”
The COVID 19 crisis has brought about a rapid rise in the remote workforce. Employees are working while facing the anxiety of uncertainty as well as the disruption and distractions associated with working from the place they call home. Because there is no clear endpoint to pandemic adaptations, prioritizing employee engagement as a business strategy is now more important than ever!
Read MoreEven just one week ago, I don't think we thought we'd be where we are today. This is both from the standpoint of “the health crisis is worse than we imagined” and from the standpoint of “wow, our staff have really stepped up their commitment to making their remote work, work”.
We’ve now been working remotely for a few weeks. Because we had to rush to remote work, we had no time to assess whether people were suited for it or not. So the first post in this Remote Work series suggested we now look at the characteristics we would have assessed in ourselves and our staff. If you looked at the questions in the first post “Is Telecommuting Right For Me? I bet you found one or two areas that were lacking in each of your staff (and maybe yourself).
Read MoreThe past week I have gotten so many great tips on what happens when we’re all remote workers/first time remote working/working with that crisis feeling. I’ve participated in super detailed Zoom sessions, read some extremely timely articles, people’s new policies, lots of emails and listened to some pretty in pain people on the phone. Here’s what we found with a week or more of remote work under our belts (and since this is a rolling issue, unfolding as I type, there will be more issues discovered next week):
Read More20 years ago it was called Telecommuting and it was all the rage. Every big company was creating policies, procedures, assessments and training. HR Executive Magazine, Fast Company, Inc and a host of other magazines were writing articles. Small businesses had been doing forever - but technology was making it easier. In the last ten years we started calling it remote work, and until a couple weeks ago we took it for granted
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