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• Engage employees now to retain them when the economic upturn comes

  The recession is staving off a mass exodus of dissatisfied employees (external website). So employers are well advised to focus on boosting employee engagement now in order to retain their workforce once economic recovery gets underway. These are among... Posted Jul 27 2009, 08:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: retention, labour market, hr policy and strategy, recession, employee engagement, engagement

• Research proves employee engagement can help UK economy

  A review commissioned by the government and carried out by contributors from Sainsbury's UBS Group, HSBC, Financial TImes Group and the Work Foundation, has concluded that involving employees fully in the future of the organisations they work for... Posted Jul 20 2009, 01:36 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: employee relations, engagement, uk economy, governement report

• Google's approach to staff interaction: manage the cafe queues so staff chat

  Google's reputation stands before it (market capitalisation in excess of $100bn, 20,000 plus staff) ) and I for one would like to visit Google HQ in California - known as the Googleplex to get a sense of how the organisation works and to see for myself... Posted Jun 23 2009, 10:08 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, engagement, Google, staff benefits

• Earnings inequality increases job satisfaction, Danish research finds

  An employee's job satisfaction increases when there is evidence that their co-workers earn more than they do for similar work (subscription required), according to potentially controversial research from Danish academics, reported on XpertHR. Read... Posted May 11 2009, 08:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay rates, pay and benefits, engagement, job satisfaction, denmark

• Case study: Using flexible benefits to boost retention

  Flexible benefits can have a significant and quantifiable impact on employee engagement (subscription required), recruitment and retention, as the experience of engineering and construction company Subsea 7 - newly profiled on XpertHR - illustrates. Read... Posted May 08 2009, 08:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, retention, benefits, engagement, flexible benefits

• UK workers rank bonuses as top motivator in 2009

  More than three-fifths (61%) of UK workers say bonuses are the benefit most likely to motivate them to do a good job (on the personneltoday.com website) in 2009, according to research from Reward & Benefits Today, part of the XpertHR Group. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 09:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, bonuses, benefits, irs surveys, motivation, engagement, bonus

• For better, for worse - secrets of employee engagement

  There is no one easy way to achieve employee engagement, but by following a few basic pointers employers can find they are dealing with a far more loyal, dynamic and contented workforce, according to academics and practitioners speaking at this week's... Posted Jan 28 2009, 07:42 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: employee relations, benefits, cipd, engagement, internal communications