Category: Going Green
Just in Time for Earth Day: CareerBuilder Releases Survey on “Green” Companies
April 21, 2009
Tomorrow is Earth Day. In honor of it, today, Ben & Jerry’s is having Free Cone Day. (Okay, it’s more than likely just a coincidence, but the company is very environmentally conscious, and I’d be remiss not to show my support for that by eating some free Chunky Monkey.)
In actual honor of Earth Day, however, CareerBuilder released the results of its latest survey, which found that one in ten employers say they’ve added environmentally focused positions to their companies in the last 12 months.
- Categories: Branding, Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Going Green, Survey Results
When Life Hands Your Employees the Winter Blahs, Make…Snow Candy?
February 4, 2009
The snow is falling outside, and the morale of your employees is falling fast inside the doors of your workplace. It may just be due to those ol’ “winter blahs,” or it may be an aftereffect of recent company layoffs. It may even be a mixture of both — or something else entirely.
If your employees are moping around the water cooler, sleeping at lunch, or sobbing during meetings, it’s likely not a good sign. You need to get your employees excited about coming into work again — like, now. It’s important to remember that just because employees are on your payroll doesn’t automatically mean they love their jobs or wish to stay with you for the long-term. As an employer, your responsibility for their well-being is just as important as it was six months or a year ago – if not more important.
But when things are so bad, how can you make work fun again? You may be surprised to find that a lot of little things can add up quickly to thaw out your employees’ frozen hearts.
- Categories: Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Employer Advice, Going Green, Innovation, Philanthropy
The People’s Voice: We’re Listening To You
September 15, 2008
What makes this nation unique is the opportunity for an uncensored voice of the people, for opinions to be shared, for questions to be asked. It is what makes an election year always interesting, and inspires a posting such as this to reach out for public opinion (don’t jump ahead just yet, but make sure you exercise your 1st Amendment rights in the comments feature below).
In that political vein, with the earth-shattering intriguing political convention season behind us, and candidates racing towards what’s guaranteed to be a highly-dramatic November 4th Election Day, several things are certain: Read the rest…
- Categories: Branding, Economy, Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Employer Advice, Events, Generational Hiring, Going Green, Leadership Development, Philanthropy
Be Careful What You Conserve For…
August 25, 2008
If your company is making a conscious decision to “go green” – and not just for appearance’s sake - I genuinely applaud you. Just don’t make the same mistake that Texas-based canning company WHH Ranch did, using shredded checks from a nearby bank to package their shipped goods to customers.
As good as their intentions might’ve been, they probably could’ve made a wiser decision about which paper products they chose to recycle…perhaps something a little less identity-thefty, no? (And, as Consumerist.com points out, “It’s great that WHH Ranch agreed to stop packing goods in shredded checks, but what sort of insanely reckless bank was handing them out to begin with?!”)
- Categories: Branding, Employee Engagement, Going Green
CareerBuilder Survey Reveals that Majority of Workers Are Burned Out
July 18, 2008
This week, CareerBuilder released the results of its “worker burnout” survey. It appears that downsized staffs, paired with increased workloads, are creating a rise in workplace stress levels. The survey, which polled over 7,600 workers nationwide, found that a whopping 78 percent of workers report feeling burned out at work.
Current worker burnout seems largely attributed to three interrelated factors: work overload, lack of a work/life balance, and lack of a flexible work schedule.
- Categories: Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Employer Advice, Going Green, Survey Results
Employers Must be Forward-Thinking Amid Rising Fuel Costs…or Employees are Gone
June 20, 2008
In a previous post, I talked about the effect of fuel costs on employees, as well as various ways that employers are alleviating these pains. However, it seems that although the impact has been fast and furious, some employers are a bit slow on the draw in adopting workplace changes. Employers must be forward-thinking in the midst of our current (and not-ending-anytime-soon) fuel crisis – or they risk employees becoming frustrated and leaving.
In a recent Robert Half survey, 44 percent of workers said that higher gas prices have affected their work arrangements or method of commuting, up 10 percent from 2006. The top changes they are making? Increasing carpooling/ridesharing, driving a more fuel-efficient car, telecommuting, or looking for a new job that’s closer to home. That’s right - looking for a new job.
- Categories: Economy, Employee Retention, Going Green
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