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The latest information and current trends happening inside the world of HR.
Manager Tips: How to Deal with Bullies on your Team
“The company needs to review and root out workforce bullies in this organization. There is a core group of four employees led by John Doe* and with influence from Sue Smith* that cause widespread problems that are affecting the company’s bottom line through confusion,...
Excessive Overtime and Lack of Appreciation Increases Turnover
“500 to 700 hours of expected OT a year is unreasonable. I spent 2/3 of my life at work. Senior managers never spend that much time at the facility, and when the manager’s nickname is ‘MIA’ because he is never around, it is indicative of a problem.” – Comment from an...
Are Instincts Reliable When Hiring?
Waiting to adopt a more evidence-based hiring process could be stunting your organization. Through our conversations with HR professionals working in multiple industries about the troubles and triumphs they face each day, we’ve noticed a recurring issue that...
How to Achieve Higher Completion Rates for Online Surveys
These three considerations make a big impact on completion rates. Employers today are more and more attracted to data to make informed decisions. Still, data can be misleading, especially when it is incomplete. If, for example, an employer only captures data from...
Boost Your Team’s Productivity and Engagement with Work Redesign
Once you've learned why your employees leave, how do you start fixing the problem? One of the common turnover causes we see from exiting employees is the balance of workload. Work redesign is a workplace flexibility initiative that can help reduce employee turnover....
ExitRight® Norms and Retention
Data-driven Ways to Improve Retention Our article about the most important turnover causes for employees in 2017 illustrated trends across all industries and drew out some interesting exceptions. ExitRight® now offers industry-specific norms to help our customers...
Top Five Turnover Causes
Data-driven Insights for Employee Retention ExitRight® recently updated its ExitRight norms based upon responses to benchmarked questions from all clients during 2016 and 2017. These insights are available on all ExitRight user reports and on our instant reporting...
How to Create Effective Training Programs
Preparing Your Employees to be Their Best It’s difficult to walk into a new job. As a new hire, you have to quickly learn the ropes about company culture, expectations, and your role within the workplace. These temporary unknowns can lead to a greater sense of stress...
Should You Use Retention Surveys or Stay Interviews?
Give Your Employees a Forum to Speak Their Minds Why Conduct On-Line Retention Surveys Many employers face high employee turnover rates, and the results are costly. It goes without saying, but it costs employers in both time and money to frequently hire and on-board...
Verbal Abuse in the Workplace
4 Steps to Help Employees Advocate for Themselves Quite often, supervisors, managers and senior managers don’t realize the impact that shouting, swearing and name-calling have on employees. Bullying is not always loud and aggressive; it takes many forms. Any time a...
