5 Ideas For Bringing Your Employee’s Back
Looking at the organizations we support and hearing who is having the best response from their employees and retaining talent, these are some of the ideas we have for organizations who are beginning to bring employees back to their offices/facilities. Different roles and different industries obviously require interpretation for
Be flexible: Starting out, offering hybrid work schedules for days where team collaboration is critical to have people in the office and days when working from home is more productive due to tactical execution.
Ask your employees: Asking vs. Telling empowers your staff to have input and feel empowered.
Set department expectations: What is good for one department or team, may not be good for another. One way of mitigating the risk of frustrating those who want to be on site or those who wish to work from home, is making it more about the team and requirements of specific department functions vs. one size fits all.
Fail to Plan - Plan to Fail: Building your plan for how, when and why is essential when it comes to helping your employees plan out their own schedules and make their own arrangements for family, pets and the changes that will be required to come back to the office.
Over Communicate: Keep your employees informed by communicating weekly or bi-weekly with updates on where the organization stands and encourage leaders to share information as it comes. Helping people keep a pulse on what can be expected has been a factor in successfully bringing back employees.
