A recent survey of brand managers, internal communications staff, and corporate communications managers by Emperor and Communicate magazine illustrates a changing dynamic in how organizations view the importance of brand management as it relates to their employees, and the changes in internal communications software that this new dynamic might require.
Running a corporation has, since the days of the East India Trading Company, been a top-down exercise. Management gave orders, and everyone followed them. Whatever employee engagement surveys and corporate communications tools there might have been were largely seen as human resources activities designed to let employees vent, sort of a suggestion/complaint box on a grander scale. As a result, huge opportunities from a business improvement standpoint went sailing by.
Managers demand more collaboration and greater control over the workday, but bringing workers back isn’t easy
Paid leave continues to be a hot topic among employers. As large companies like Netflix and municipalities such as Nashville have strengthened their family leave benefits, caregiving perks also rank high on workers’ must-have list of benefits.
Although voluntary products are becoming more prevalent in the market as employees shoulder more of their healthcare costs, a group of product experts warned not to offer too many elective benefits at once, as doing so overwhelms those making the purchasing decision.
This week Andy Douse, founder/ director of Red Publications, a York-based internal communications agency, runs us through a week in his working life.
How do you communicate with business teams in a world of ever-shortening attention spans?
Corporate communication tools come in all shapes and sizes. Many are cloud-based, allowing your employees to access their hubs and use them to reach the entire organization. Managers can use these portals to train employees, recognize employees, drive benefits enrollment, and much more, even with remote employees in a large organization.
It’s no longer practical to hold meetings where the HR team goes through open enrollment options and takes questions from the group at large – meetings like that are costly and time consuming. But what are companies to do instead? As HR Dive summarizes the preparation plight, “Planning and designing communication plans [is] employers’ biggest stumbling block.”
With the goal of engaging workers, Australian mining company uses StaffConnect employee communications mobile app to keep workers informed and connected in the field.
Each member of a company is just as valuable as the next, offering their own set of skills, insight and personality. As team members, your employees can work both individually and together to reach a common goal.
Ben Steverman of Bloomberg reports that “Employers cut their contributions to workers' retirements by a quarter from 2001 to 2015…The biggest driver: the decline of traditional defined-benefit pensions, replaced by stingier, 401(k)-style, defined-contribution plans.”
SAN FRANCISCO — In an effort to tackle recommendations aimed at refurbishing its corporate image after a season of scandal, Uber is boosting the pay of its employees and guaranteeing pay equity between the sexes and across races.
Employee video communications using “digital video postcards” has been shown to improve overall employee engagement. The data collected and reported in Flimp Communications 2017 Employee Video Communications Report, proves it. Why are these campaigns so successful?
If you want to keep top-performing employees, you need to pay them well and what they are worth. Accurately paying an employee will make the employee stay loyal to you and not jump ship to a major competitor with open arms who will compensate them like you should have done. Companies that pay their employees well and explain their compensation plans with employee communication videos attract dedicated people who want to be a part of your team.
Internal employee communications is all about the proper training to get everyone on the same page.
Today is the fourth world emoji day. It was first celebrated on July 17, 2014 by Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia. Why July 17? Because that’s the date on your calendar emoji.
A judge has ordered Google to hand over employee records to federal investigators probing the alleged gender pay gap at the Internet giant.
All corporate communication tools are designed to help employers engage and communicate with their diverse employees. Recruiting millennials will take some extra corporate communications expertise.
Payroll budgets need to include direct wage and salary payments, commissions, bonuses, incentives, payroll taxes and insurance, along with any other directly related costs the business incurs in the payroll function.
Gaining buy-in from employees and motivating them to value safety is crucial to building a strong safety culture in an organization. Yet when safety professionals are asked to identify their top challenges on the job, employee engagement is always at the top of the list.
As a group, Millennials tend to do less preventative medical care than only population segments. Help your clients get them engaged with a vision plan, which offers screenings that can help with early detection of chronic disease as well as choices for options like fashion eyewear.
In today’s war for talent, the number on the paycheck is just one of many aspects prospective employees consider when deciding where to work. Millennials are largely driving this shift, as they look for work/life balance and a socially conscious corporate culture.
Identity theft protection's popularity with employees — and utility for employers — make it easier to convince clients that it’s a must-have in their voluntary benefits lineup.
Flexible, cloud-based platform provides new standard for communication and collaboration
Employee communication videos have become the latest fashionable internal communication channel across multiple industries in recent years. These videos and other digital internal communications channels work well because they convey information more easily and with greater efficiency than other, more traditional forms of internal communication and employee engagement. Animated explainer videos are becoming increasingly common because of their power to engage and explain.
Employer brand management has been pushed up the corporate agenda in recent years. Communicate magazine, in collaboration with Emperor, has carried out research into the employer brand.
Handling workers’ compensation claims can present a number of challenges, such as determining whether an injury is work-related and evaluating back-to-work accommodation requests
Organizations with the best employee video communication in the world still lose valuable workers and mid-level managers due to terrible bosses. Here are four archetypes of bad bosses that send talented employees running for the hills and torpedo the best employee retention efforts.
Technology is moving, millennial needs are moving, and internal communications tries to keep pace.