Mental health care is now a necessity in the hectic work world of today, not a luxury. The worrying status of mental health support in the workplace and its significant impact on employee retention are revealed by a recent survey conducted by Unum UK, a top provider of employee benefits. This blog article explores the results and the crucial actions that employers need to take to close this gap.

Employee engagement plays a pivotal role in the success of any compliance training initiative. When employees are actively involved in their training, they are more likely to remember and implement what they've learned in their tasks. This, in turn, fosters a work environment that's both compliant and ethical. This blog will discuss strategies that organizations can use to promote employee engagement in compliance training.

During the pandemic, workplaces around the globe were compelled to go remote, launching an unplanned trial of widespread work-from-home practices. This grand experiment in remote working led to several revelations: for many, productivity remained stable or even increased, and the majority of workers found they preferred the new flexibility that remote work provided.

In an industry where both innovation and solid relationships are vital, cutting-edge technology plays a significant role in business success. Customer support in manufacturing is not just a service, but a commitment to nurturing a long-term partnership. This industry is full of complex machinery and detailed processes. Utilizing relevant technology provides a streamlined, simplified direction to establish sustainable growth and stay competitive.

Knowledge management has long been an IT service management (ITSM) capability, with it now a management practice within the ITIL 4 body of service management best practice guidance. However, knowledge management is also one of the ITSM capabilities that, while relatively highly adopted, organisations often struggle with.

A recent poll conducted by Apna.co offers valuable insights into the reasons behind the decision of many professionals to stay with a single firm for extended periods of time, in a time when career transfers are common. With the evaluation season quickly approaching, this poll sought to unravel the expectations and objectives of today’s workforce by gathering opinions from 10,000 professionals in a variety of sectors.

OKRs stand for objectives and key results, a goal-setting framework that can help your team set and track measurable goals. Originally pioneered by John Doerr, this framework pairs the company-level objectives you want to achieve with the key results you’ll use to measure progress—so your goals are tied to your team’s day-to-day work. In this article, we explain how the OKR process works and share examples to get you started setting OKRs for your company, team, or personal life.

Serving as a link between the hiring process and complete integration into the organization, onboarding is an essential stage in the employee lifecycle. Productivity, work happiness, and employee retention can all be strongly impacted by a well-organized onboarding process. Onboarding strategies need to change with businesses, and they can benefit from ongoing innovation and improvement.

We’re in the project economy—where a large part of our work revolves around innovating a new product or service. Even if you’re not a project manager, you might have embraced the responsibilities of one to manage a project at some point and would have utilized project planning. The art of project planning requires strategic thinking about how to achieve a desired goal.