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Building resiliency in your workforce during uncertain economic times provides your agricultural business with a competitive edge. Predicting and planning for disruptions helps your employees overcome them. Your workforce’s ability to adapt during uncertain economic times helps your organization thrive. You can use the following methods to cultivate resiliency for business growth. Choose among these… Read more »
Calculating the time and money spent on your hiring process, recruitment marketing costs, and revenue per employee provides insight into how much hiring the wrong person can hurt your business. These results affect your bottom line. Hiring the wrong person elevates your expenses related to hiring, onboarding, and training replacements. These losses quickly add up… Read more »
Employee happiness impacts engagement, productivity, and performance. Happiness at work also affects job satisfaction, employee morale, and attraction and retention rates. Finding unique ways to improve employee happiness elevates your bottom line. As a result, making your employees happy should be among your priorities. These ideas can help. Choose among these five unique tips to… Read more »
It continues to be a candidate’s market, and focusing on reducing your time-to-hire process is essential. According to Harver, only 30% of companies can fill a role within 30 days, and 57% of job seekers lose interest if the hiring process takes too long. The remaining take anywhere between 1-4 months to make a hire!… Read more »
Implementing cost-effective strategies helps increase the success of your hiring process. The more cost-effective your process, the better you can maximize your return on investment (ROI). Although your hiring process may require a significant amount of time and money, you can take steps to reduce these costs. The following suggestions can help. Choose among these… Read more »
According to an article by McKinsey & Company, “COVID-19 may no longer be a pandemic, but the disease likely reduced the availability of the US workforce by as much as 2.6 percent in 2022—a burden on productivity that could last for years. COVID-19 has gradually become a part of the US landscape.” Within that landscape,… Read more »
Upskilling involves learning new skills or teaching employees new skills. The process includes engaging in or offering professional development so employees advance in their career paths and employers help close their companies’ skills gap. Reskilling involves learning new skills to perform a different job or training employees to perform different jobs. The process includes looking… Read more »
Navigating the post-pandemic job market can be challenging. What employees want now is different than what they wanted three years ago. The increasing desire for work-life balance means the need to provide remote or hybrid work arrangements and flexible schedules. Also, the growing range of opportunities means employers must offer increased compensation and benefits to… Read more »
Understaffing occurs when you do not have enough team members to handle the workload for several months. This problem costs your company time, talent, opportunities, and revenue. Chronic understaffing differs from temporary staffing shortages. For instance, temporary shortages have a defined cause and end. These shortages may occur when a number of your employees are… Read more »
Quiet quitting involves fulfilling the minimum job requirements and not putting in more time or effort than needed. The employee does the bare minimum to continue to collect a paycheck. They do not arrive early, stay late, or participate in non-mandatory meetings. A 2022 Gallup survey suggested that at least 50% of the US workforce… Read more »