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An Inside Look at the State of Retail Talent
According to the latest sales forecast from the National Retail Federation, retail sales are expected to increase between 3.8 percent and 4.4 percent this year. For retailers looking to snag a piece of the $3.8 trillion pie, hiring qualified retail talent who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the business will be key. In fact, according to a recent analysis from Wharton professors, for every dollar spent on a retailer’s payroll, $4 to $28 in additional revenue was generated.
Why Retailers Should Embrace the BYOD Revolution
In an effort to boost customer engagement, retailers are focused on data collection now more than ever before. As part of that extra data collection, brands are investing in technologies that enable them to gain insight into in-store activities as well as making workers more productive. While traditionally employers were providing these devices to employees to access work-related software, they’re beginning to embrace BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) strategies.
5 Ways Businesses are Using Tech to Build Better Employee Habits
The article discusses 5 ways that businesses of all sizes can cultivate positive employee habits. Using a blend of technology and psychological insights, businesses can create a productive and happy workplace culture. The science of manager and organizational psychology has made major developments over the last century that have provided penetrating insights into the minds of people at work.
Three Ways to Prevent Regrettable Turnover in your Millennial Employees
The top reasons employees stay and how millennials are most at risk of regrettable turnover. Lisa Sterling of Ceridian, goes on to detail the three areas organizations need to focus on to keep their Millennial employees engaged, loyal and committed. Today’s modern workforce is dynamic, competitive, and ever-changing. Staying with one company for several years let alone decades is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
WorkJam Appoints Former COO of Target Australia
WorkJam, a digital workplace solutions provider, today announces the appointment of one of Australia’s top retail industry executives, Andrew Myers, as Vice President of Asia Pacific (APAC) and Global Digital Strategy. In his new role, Myers will be charged with driving the company's continued expansion into Australia and the Asia Pacific.
Building Employee Engagement with Smart Technologies: An Interview with Rephael Sweary of WalkMe
“Many organizations in the last few years have focused on embarking on a successful digital transformation journey, which means that they must maximize the use of their digital assets.
3 Ways Intranet Platforms Can Improve Employee Loyalty And Engagement
How can companies combat churn and boost employee engagement? Through the use of intranets. Organizations can deploy these hubs to share information, connect with coworkers and executives, and ensure that their staff feels valued In today’s hyper-competitive world, it’s more important than ever for businesses to make sure they’re routinely engaging with their employees.
4 Workplace Diversity Trends We Can Expect in 2019
Modern businesses cannot afford to ignore the phenomenal importance of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) at the workplace. We discuss the key D&I trends you can expect to see in 2019. We’ve Come Very Far, But There’s a Lot of Ground to Cover 2018 was a landmark year for diversity and inclusion at the workplace. First, companies accepted the existing gender pay gap among employees.
SocialChorus Unveils New Interactive Features to Increase Employee Engagement
SocialChorus, a workforce communications platform, today announced the launch of new features to increase employee engagement and easily connect employees with corporate messages. The updates include a means to embed the SocialChorus communications feed in key corporate locations such as the Intranet, a powerful search functionality, recommended posts to deliver timely, relevant content and top stories.
SocialChorus Unlocks New Interactive Features to Amplify Employee Engagement
SocialChorus, a workforce communications platform, today announced the launch of new features to increase employee engagement and easily connect employees with corporate messages. The updates include a means to embed the SocialChorus communications feed in key corporate locations such as the Intranet, a powerful search functionality, recommended posts to deliver timely, relevant content and top stories.
Consumer Trends to Watch This Holiday Shopping Season
Contrary to popular belief, shoppers aren't abandoning brick-and-mortar to shop online exclusively. Although consumers do relish the convenience and vast inventory available online, they still crave the tactile experience of the retail store. This is even more true during the holiday season. In fact, a recent study conducted by Natural Insight found that the vast majority of consumers (88 percent) plan to do their holiday shopping in stores this season.
How to Improve Employee Engagement through Reimbursement Programs
Employee retention is critical to any business’s success. To keep employees productive and engaged, look beyond typical workplace offerings. Find out how implementing reimbursement programs at your organization can enhance employee engagement and promote a healthier environment overall. Reimbursement programs allow organizations to give back to their employees for participating in self-initiated activities that enhance their well-being.
Personality Based Engagement: Tips and Tricks on Meeting an Employee's Individual Needs
Engage with employees on their personality wavelength. Tailored employee engagement can help your employees feel more important and in tune with your company as well as lead to increased performance and better retention rates. Employee engagement can play a key role in many aspects of your business including company success, employee retention and more. So, what does good employee engagement look like? And, how can you maximize its benefits? First, employee engagement works best when tailored.
Spoke Enhances its Service-Request Platform to Handle More Complex Requests
Spoke, the AI-powered help desk for the enterprise, announced a significant expansion to its service-request platform, including more intelligence, applications, and integrations. Spoke, which started by bringing intelligence and automation to common employee Q&As, now has trained its AI to handle more complicated service requests that require both knowledge-sharing and responsive actions.
5 Company Culture Metrics You Should Be Tracking in 2019
It’s the end of another year and even as you look forward to setting your business goals for 2019, it’s a good idea to take stock of the organizational culture. Here are five company culture metrics that can help you evaluate if your culture is set for success. Senior leadership in SMBs across the globe are beginning to realize that company culture is intrinsically tied to business success.
4 Tips to Take your Candidate Experience from Good to Great
Recruitment should be a process that has benefits for all concerned, no matter what the outcome is for the candidate. By making hiring more candidate-centric, companies can create a win-win situation. When it comes to creating the best workspace for you and your employees, there’s really only one rule: there are no hard and fast rules. Before you throw your papers up in the air and walk out of the office, let me clarify.
5 Steps to a Social-First Employee Engagement
L’Oreal used their employee engagement and communication plan to create 200,000+ unique impressions on Instagram. The Big Blue has realized that 48% variance in employee engagement is completely predictable, using their Social Pulse tool to improve workplace satisfaction. Inspired by these success stories, we share five ideas for making social media part of your employee engagement communication strategy. In the digital age, social media is an integral part of every business strategy.
How to Boost Employee Engagement With Career Pathing Software
Career pathing software offers a solution in boosting employee engagement for businesses large and small, spanning nearly all industries and sectors. Here’s how career pathing solutions help organizations increase engagement among their workers. Employee engagement is a topic of great concern among companies, with a recent study highlighting the fact that 71% of businesses rank employee engagement as a priority.
2018 Holiday Hiring Strategies for Retail
The 2018 holiday shopping season is expected to bring historical sales due to a healthy economy and strong consumer confidence. However, with the national unemployment rate at an all-time low, finding qualified seasonal retail workers to fill the nearly 650,000 open positions this holiday season has been challenging. With only weeks left in the season, retailers must act now in order to secure top talent and maximize holiday sales.
Cultivating Employee Engagement is Key to Talent Retention
According to Megan Barbier, Wrike VP of Human Resources, talent retention comes down employee engagement through aligning around a common language, delegation, feedback and paying attention to employee behavior. According to a recent Gallup poll, employee engagement is on the rise. Thirty-four percent of U.S. workers are “engaged,” tying the highest mark since Gallup began tracking the trend in 2000. “Actively disengaged” employees are at an all-time low at 13 percent.
3 Low-Cost, High-Impact Internal Communication Tools for Small Businesses
The workforce is in a constant state of flux. Technological disruptions, talent shortages and an increasingly competitive economic environment require small businesses to be more efficient than ever. To keep up with the pace, small businesses must embrace new internal communication tools and strategies to drive productivity and profitability. Here are three must-have tools for small businesses looking to get ahead of the curve.
Is Your Company’s Technology Holding You Back? The New Mandate for Enterprise HR Tech
The new era of HR technology and tools is here – and it’s in the hands of employees and leaders. Businesses must ensure solutions are people-centric to give employees superior experiences. In your job, you are likely responsible for a lot of different things, no matter what your job description says. You probably have to ensure you talk to certain people, communicate certain information, and manage certain tasks and resources.
How to Recognize Employee Accomplishments With the Help of Career Pathing Software
Employee Engagement is the key to higher job satisfaction and job involvement and therefore for a better company culture and higher productivity. Recognizing employee engagement though was hard to accomplish and deliver up until the introduction of career pathing software. There are several opportunities for companies around the world to make positive changes with the help of technology.
Hiring Smart - Retail Merchandiser
Elevate your brand by hiring and retaining the right people. The gig economy is here to stay. With 59 percent of America’s workforce – some 80 million Americans – comprised of hourly workers who are highly mobile, retailers recognize that, to remain competitive and elevate their brand, they must hire and retain the right people. So, how can retailers find and retain the right kind of workers who can both connect with customers and steadily improve work quality?
How Can We Help Employees Control Their Emotions in the Workplace?
While the world is not falling apart, it can feel like it is with the daily barrage of negative news. In this article, international speaker and mental health activist Ulrich Kellerer shares thoughts about the power of positivity and promoting mental wellness at work. Mass shootings. Natural disasters. Celebrity suicides. And let’s not forget the heated political and social climate. This exhaustive list of often-emotionally distressing scenarios seems to be never-ending in today’s world.
4 Tips to Take your Candidate Experience from Good to Great
Recruitment should be a process that has benefits for all concerned, no matter what the outcome is for the candidate. By making hiring more candidate-centric, companies can create a win-win situation. Why is candidate experience important? After all, only a tiny proportion of those who apply for a job will be successful and end up working in your organization. Well, it’s important to remember that candidates are both employees and consumers.
Getting Started with Engagement Analytics
While employee engagement has been recognized as one of the key drivers of business success, organizations still struggle with measuring engagement. This article explores how organizations can begin measuring engagement effectively. Just googling the term employee engagement throws up 41 million search results. Although ubiquitous in the modern workplace, the term “employee engagement” is relatively new.
Participation and the Right Data: The Keys to Understanding Team Dynamics
Understanding team dynamics starts with an experience that puts your people at the center of it — and traditional employee assessments fall drastically short of modern expectation. At the beginning of the 21st century, the most prominent buyers of technology were large enterprises. While Microsoft’s vision of a computer in every home had largely become a reality, the lion’s share of purchasing power and innovation was happening in enterprise computing.
5 Things Marketing Does That HR Should Do Right Away
If your HR team is recruiting, you need to be marketing. Find and keep the brightest talent when you follow these five essential marketing tactics! It turns out that human resources and marketing aren’t so different after all. In fact, some argue that HR has become the new marketing. A company’s reputation matters to this generation of millennial consumers more than ever.
How to Recognize Employee Accomplishments With the Help of Career Pathing Software
Employee Engagement is the key to higher job satisfaction and job involvement and therefore for a better company culture and higher productivity. Recognizing employee engagement though was hard to accomplish and deliver up until the introduction of career pathing software. There are several opportunities for companies around the world to make positive changes with the help of technology.
Are your Employees Invested in Innovation?
At a time when many companies struggle to attract and retain top talent, getting employees invested in the innovation process remains a priority. Spigit’s president and CEO, Scott Raskin, shares practical ways companies can get their employees invested in innovation. Your workforce is your most valuable asset.
Natural Insight and Ceridian Partner to Offer Integrated Workforce Management Solution for Retail and Staffing Industries
Natural Insight, a leader in enterprise cloud and mobile applications for retail merchandising and workforce management, announced it is an early adopter of Ceridian’s Dayforce Software Partner Program. With this strategic alliance, Natural Insight and Ceridian will provide the retail and staffing industries a powerful and streamlined workforce management solution.
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