People spend a significant proportion of their lives at work, so it is only natural that they would like the experience to be as pleasant as possible. Understanding what employees want from their employer and their workplace is important. Delivering on employee needs not only helps with attracting and retaining great talent, but it will help to boost morale, engagement, productivity and profits.

Employee engagement has clear links to business outcomes. When you have high levels of engagement, your business is likely to be more successful. If you aren’t measuring the return on investment (ROI) on employee engagement, your efforts to improve engagement may be futile. By using employee engagement measurement tools, systems and strategies you can calculate your employee engagement ROI.

IT helpdesks in large organizations are often extremely busy places, with staffing and budgetary issues that can affect the ability to deal with large volumes of help requests – which is a major problem experienced by help desks. 

Internal communication is important in every organization, large and small. Sharing information, news, advice, directives and celebrating success and achievements help to form a cohesive team environment where everyone is working together towards the same common goal.

Do you know how engaged your healthcare employees are? Do you know about the link between employee engagement and patient satisfaction?

When your organization is confronted with an emergency situation, you need to act quickly to inform employees so that they can be safe. Using a range of channels and tools in your emergency management response – including Microsoft Teams emergency notifications – is one of the most efficient and effective ways to ensure that your employees receive your message.

Employee morale is a major factor in your business’ success. When it is high, employees are more productive and your business is more competitive and profitable. Do you know what the status of morale is in your company? It’s important to know so that you can examine how to improve employee morale by making appropriate improvements, if necessary.

How prepared are you for an emergency in your workplace? At a minimum, you should have a fire evacuation plan in place to keep your employees safe. If you don’t have one, it isn’t too late!

Successful businesses thrive, in part, because they have effective internal communication systems and processes in place. When information is sent down the chain from management to lower rungs on the ladder, it helps everyone to be on the same page and understand the company’s goals and objectives. This top to bottom approach - formally known as the top-down communication model - helps businesses to succeed.

A typical employee has too many tasks to accomplish in a normal working day that it can be challenging for the corporate communications team, HR and other departments to get their attention. There is an ingenious and practical way to reach these employees: pop-up messaging.