How do you plan to continue maintaining employee engagement across your business as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic?
With remote working having proven hugely successful for so many businesses over recent months, it looks as though this will continue to be embraced and implemented on a more permanent basis.
But what would this mean for employee engagement?
Key considerations for businesses with a remote workforce
If you currently have a large percentage of your teams working remotely, there are a number of important areas that you need to consider. The first being how your employees are being supported and how you are communicating with your team.
Maintaining an engaged remote workforce is key in helping this way of working really work for you and your staff, so they can continue being productive and feel like part of the team.
Another key area to consider is how you will be supporting your employees with issues such as mental health, stress, and loneliness.
As it has already been discussed, these are all issues that we could see emerge and increase within workforces moving forward. How will you ensure all employees are being correctly supported to help them deal with and overcome these issues?
A final consideration for your remote workforce is how you will maintain and build your company culture.
This is something that has become key in motivating today's workforce and also plays a big role in boosting employee retention.
Maintaining company culture has previously been much easier for businesses to achieve when staff have all been working within the office environment, where getting across key messages, visions, values and ethos can be achieved through branding and regular and quality communication.
With remote working removing these opportunities, this now needs to be achieved in a different way.
How can you ensure these considerations are met?
As specialists in branded merchandise, we understand just how valuable this tool can be in helping businesses to maintain employee engagement, especially in the current climate when they will not be working in the traditional office environment as frequently.
You can support employee engagement, highlight key issues, and maintain your company culture through investing in innovative and intelligent branded products that are in tune with your business and that provide your teams with something of value.
But it is also important that this is used in conjunction with other solutions and initiatives.
It is key that when utilising branded products to support and engage your team, that they marry up with your other efforts. These efforts could be regular Zoom calls, virtual social events, virtual learning and development or even virtual HR, where your HR Team runs regular one-to-one sessions with each team member.
We have been supporting a number of clients over recent months, utilising our innovative and out of the box thinking to provide them with unique solutions to maintain employee engagement both now and moving forward.
If you would like support in this area, we can work with you to understand how you and your teams work and provide advice and solutions to help you overcome challenges.