Employee Engagement Blogs

Read our employee engagement blog to get useful management tips, articles and thought leadership ideas for you and your managers.

Employee presenteeism: the real reason sickness rates are ‘lower’

If you looked at the statistics for lost working days, you might think that medical science has made a miraculous leap forward and cured the majority of employee ailments. According…

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Is World Gratitude Day a useful contribution to staff recognition?

Today is World Gratitude Day Hooray. A lot of empty gestures will be made today, says my inner cynic, mostly in companies that want employees to think they really care. This is…

How to retain top talent in the financial services industry

Retaining talent is becoming a top priority for the financial services industry. As Ed Price, Head of Finance, Experis UK & Ireland recently put it ‘The financial services world is…

Retaining new accounting talent

Ungrateful or what? You take people fresh from university, invest all that time and money training them, and minutes later they’re off – just as they’re starting to be useful. Retaining…

Stormtrooper with an employee engagement idea

Employee engagement idea

There is an epidemic of exhaustion. Wherever you look, people are tired, fatigued, worn out and struggling to motivate themselves in a life that seems devoid of meaning. No wonder…

Why is it so hard to keep good teachers?

The kids are not alright If you come from a privileged background your life chances are still greater – the gap between rich and poor remains ‘persistently high’. The Commission…

What we learned at the HRD summit Birmingham

The HRD Summit at the ICC in Birmingham is the most senior gathering of HR Directors in Europe, and WeThrive was proud to be there, in the exhibition hall and…

Working remotely: what you need to know

When it comes to employee engagement, a variety of measures can be implemented in the workplace to make sure everyone can work at their best. A brilliant way to help…

Does survey completion rate matter?

I’ve just read on a well-known HR site that we shouldn’t get too hung up on survey completion rate when measuring staff engagement – it’s OK if half the staff fill…

It’s National Stress Awareness Day – but you knew that…

If you work in HR you will already know all about stress, so you may not take that kindly to being reminded about National Stress Awareness Day. But read on…

How to build an effective team

There is no mystery about how to build an effective team: it happens automatically. Give a group of eight-year-olds a ball and they will improvise a game in no time,…