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The backbone of any type of business is its company culture. While large corporations may be able to rely on fun perks and large salaries to entice people to join their teams, small companies usually have to depend on a positive company culture to encourage employees to stay on. If you own any type of small business, you know how crucial it is to hire the right people to join your team. Here are five ways you can create a positive work environment and avoid a high rate of employee turnover.
There’s no doubt about it. A happy workforce is one that is productive and works hard for your business. Feeling part of a team helps employees work together and builds loyalty, and rather than just coming to work to earn money, happy and motivated employees want the best for your business. So how do business owners help their employees to have good morale? This guide gives you some tips.
If your Monday morning work routine already has you fantasizing about the weekend, you might be showing signs of burnout. It’s somewhat different than job-related stress. Experts say stress is usually short-term—maybe you have an important project deadline looming—but exhaustion occurs when stressors such as a lack of autonomy or feeling your work doesn’t really matter never seem to go away.
To fight burnout, it helps to know a few of the symptoms. Dreading going to work, high absenteeism, lack of energy in and out of work, insomnia, and irritability can all be signs of burnout.
So, what can you do to prevent burnout setting in on the job? Here are 10 tips. Let’s start with the ones concerning basic self-care—things you need to do every day.
In every community across the country, there are people who make a difference in the lives of others by volunteering. In fact, each year tens of thousands of volunteer service projects and community initiatives make communities in America a better place to live in.
From the grass root efforts of people who serve their communities in every sector of society, there is an abundance of projects that help lift up people that are in the most need. These projects are the heartbeat of what makes America thrive.
From faith-based organizations to non-profits and community organizations, some of America’s most difficult problems are being addressed by everyday Americans who volunteer. It is a well-recognized fact that America is one of the most generous countries in the world.
Where learning is concerned, it is common for professionals to find themselves stagnating at work. This is often a result of when the demands of the job are eating up whatever time they have which is bad news for professional development. Over time, you might find yourself no longer growing into the person you imagined a few years ago, a sad realisation, but the good news is you can take back control of your learning at work.
This is important because what you can learn is more relevant than what you know now, and employers need this dynamism for their employees to flourish. After all, behind every successful business is a successful team and you’re a cog in that wheel.
Taking control of your learning at work if you’re exceptionally busy will be more difficult than if you have some spare time. But it can be done and here is how to do it.
No matter what industry you are in, how large your organization is, your employees are your greatest asset. While you may be head of your business and ultimately be the decision maker, it is your workforce who have the greatest influence on your business’s success. Research has shown that in the average business, 55% of employees are looking for other work opportunities, which means that right now, your business could be at risk.
There is much more to running a business than just maximizing profits. Though it very well may be the end goal, it can be difficult to accomplish if a positive work environment is not also high on the priority list. When employees are satisfied, they can have an innate motivation to perform and be loyal to a company, which can lead to a higher quality of services or products they produce. By understanding strategies, you can use to foster a positive work environment, you can likely look forward to happy employees that are willing to go above and beyond to make your business succeed.
The practice of using corporate phones has become popular thanks to soaring workplace demands across various business fields. It is also the result of business owners and managers continuously looking for great ways to boost productivity and efficiency while reducing costs.
Having a central location where staff and management can gather routinely to plan, collaborate, and accomplish different business tasks is the norm. However, your company can also get important things done when you let your key employees work while on the go.
Drug testing in American workplaces became more common after 1986 when federal employees become officially forbidden from using illegal drugs. However, as states began changing laws to allow consumption of marijuana for medical use or even recreational use, this federal law that encourages drug testing has become an issue. Particularly for companies that have federal contracts and are based in a state where recreational use of marijuana is completely legal. Over this time, propagation techniques and cultivation has meant that concentration of THC levels has found to have been steadily increasing. This has become a problem for people who are in proximity to others who are smoking the drug, even if they are not imbibing themselves, as workplace drug testing that uses a hair strand drug test may still pick up traces of THC long after the exposure period, creating a false positive result purely from exposure. Questions arise about how long after exposure can trace of the drug still be detected in your system and do different tests produce different results.
Many Brits fear taking time off work, meaning we are turning up to work ill, the Office for National Statistics has said. In 2017, the average employee took 4.1 days off due to sickness, with members of the public sector said to lose 3.3% of their working hours because of ill health.
