Staff Engagement
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How to stop your staff from eating their feelings
- 2017-08-28
- Categories: Blogs, Staff Engagement
How to stop your staff from eating their feelings Think you’re being nice to staff by offering them food-related perks? Think again. Unless they consist of fruit and salad, you could be having a detrimental effect on your employees’ health by enabling them to stress eat. This is one of the findings from “Eating your feelings? Testing a model of employees’ work-related stressors, sleep quality and unhealthy eating”, a recent study published online in the
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How to stop your staff from leaving
- 2017-07-24
- Categories: Blogs, Staff Engagement
How to stop your staff from leaving According to a recent study by Randstad, over a third of employees (37%) in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia are planning on leaving their companies in the coming six months. While not all of them may actually see it through, that’s a very high percentage of employees who aren’t completely satisfied. If the number surprises you, and you have no idea who that 37% would be within your
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Hongkongers share what not to say to the boss
- 2017-07-17
- Categories: Blogs, Staff Engagement
Hongkongers share what not to say to the boss In today’s culturally diverse office, employees need to pay extra attention to what they say. It is easy to put your foot in your mouth when you are working alongside a variety of hard-working people in a stressful environment. With that being said, employees also need to be aware of some of the things that bosses from any culture would not be pleased to hear. In
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8 ways to help reduce workplace stress levels
- 2017-06-23
- Categories: Blogs, Staff Engagement
Despite the finance function already being highly competitive and stressful, 78% of Singaporean CFOs expect stress levels to go up over the next 3 years, found a new research by Robert Half. In a press statement to Human Resources, the specialised recruitment firm revealed the main causes of growing stress levels – increased workloads (56%), increased business expectations (54%), shorter deadlines (40%) and a competitive marketplace (38%). Thankfully, the overwhelming majority (94%) of Singaporean CFOs
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61% say pay transparency will decrease staff morale
- 2017-06-20
- Categories: Blogs, Staff Engagement
Though pay transparency has been found to boost employer-employee relationships, bosses in the advertising and marketing fields felt that an open pay policy would decrease staff morale. According to new research from The Creative Group, 82% of the 400 creative executives interviewed, revealed that their organisation refrains from publicising staff compensation; of these respondents, 61% felt that pay transparency would decrease staff morale. Nevertheless, the research also noted that there is an upside to embracing