Everything You Need to Know About Staff Retention & Turnover Prevention
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Fortunately, turnover is on a declining trend in the UK, but this also means that enterprises must continue to find ways to retain staff to remain competitive in the marketplace.
Some employee turnover is positive. A company that is too conservative in staff retention will become uncompetitive because some employees cost more to retain than [...]
The Real Benefits of Employee Assistance Programs
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Typically, such programs include referral services and short-term counselling for the employee (and possibly other members of their household) and are typically offered to employees free of charge.
A company interested in providing an employee assistance program will typically purchase a pre paid plan from a third party provider. Selecting The UK Employee Assistance Professionals [...]
How Much is Conflict Costing Your Organization?
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Why does a dependable supervisor begin calling in sick, when you know they are not really ill, just before an important project is due for completion? Why is a valuable team leader always in a bad mood, snapping at her colleagues, coming in late, and leaving early - all of a sudden and for no [...]
Preventative Measures of Staff Retention and Absenteeism
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Considering the time and money spend recruiting and training talent, employers and managers should consider the importance of increasing both profitability and efficiency, by tackling problems that can lead to extreme profit loss.
Even if a company or organisation manages to retain a majority of their talent, preventative measure will prove to be a valuable [...]
Increasing Staff-Retention in the Age of Convenience
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Convenience rules our lives today and it affects every aspect of our lives from work, to family, and even everyday events such as eating a meal.
Unfortunately, this I want it now kind of thinking is causing the amount of absenteeism in the workplace to skyrocket. Likewise, companies and businesses are having a hard [...]
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) & Employees Substance Abuse Problems
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Though employers cannot outright diagnose one of their employees with a substance abuse problem, they should monitor their employees performance and refer employees that are having unusual performance problems to the company EAP. An employer can be a supportive branch for their employee, but they must make it clear to the employee that their job [...]
Telecommuting’s Effect on Staff Retention and Absenteeism
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Employees who are dissatisfied with their office jobs often look for excuses to not show up. Some abandon the job entirely for green pastures. This can leave companies with too many open positions too often thereby diminishing work quantity and quality. These days, businesses are turning more frequently to telecommuting as a way [...]
Employee Assistance & Marriage @ Work!
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For example, if an employee came into your office complaining about marital problems and you told them you were only interested in their work performance, then you’d be considered a bad manager for not handling the situation with a little more dignity.
Or what would happen if another employee with martial problems came into your [...]
Employees and Their Children - What To Do!
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Business today faces several critical challenges above and beyond the other issues of the working mother.
These are:
An impending labor shortage
The need for woman to fill in a lager percentage of new jobs
The decline in productivity that threatens our ability to compete
The demand that workers be better educated
The shift form manufacturing to service jobs
Employers [...]
Making the Job Interesting and Challenging
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To help alleviate this problem, it’s suggested that new challenges can reenergize them and restore their enthusiasm.
As far a staff retention and absenteeism go, there are several things that the conscientious employers can do to ensure that the numbers in the one area go up and down in the other. One of the [...]