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The Effective 5 Step Framework You Need To Make Workplace Wellness Last
Why you need to rethink your wellbeing strategy to make workplace wellness last Today is Blue Monday—so-dubbed for being the ‘most depressing day of the year.’ For many businesses, this means launching one-off initiatives or circulating timeworn tips on how to promote good mental health. The benefits of investing in …
Engineering at Hive: Our Commitment to Diversity
Diversifying working teams is at the top of most company’s agendas right now. And rightly so! Ensuring equal opportunity and diverse representation—besides being the right thing to do—has a hugely positive impact to key business outcomes and HR priorities such as employee engagement, productivity, experience, and retention. Research from CIPD on …
The Ultimate Guide To Employee Survey Confidentiality
Right, let’s get this straight — we take employee survey confidentiality very seriously at Hive. It’s true! Hive’s ‘Confidentiality Commitment’ is lived and breathed by our team and our customers, because for working people to share their inner thoughts, budding ideas and (sometimes controversial!) opinions in a survey — they need to feel …
Surveys Reimagined: The Key To Improving Employee Engagement
Let’s talk about HR’s biggest challenge in 2019 — employee engagement. The industry has seemingly tackled this topic with the boom of office practices like in-house yoga, work gamification and walk-and-talk meetings. And the science-driven data backing such strategies continue to gain momentum… So, what’s left to talk about?
People Science In Action at Amazon HQ: An Interview With Hive’s Ryan Tahmassebi
Ryan’s interview was written by journalist Simon Rushworth and featured in Northern Insight magazine. There’s a data revolution happening in human resources and Hive’s People Scientists are leading the way, helping businesses use real-time employee feedback to create better employee experiences. Hive’s Director of People Science, Ryan Tahmassebi, a seasoned …
3 Ways To Prevent Employee Burnout (Using The Jobs Demands-Resource Model)
Over half of UK workers have experienced ‘burnout’ in their jobs*. Scary, huh? Well in my first blog, I’m going to share my own ‘millennial’ burnout story, the (people) science behind burnout, and three ways organisations can drive employee engagement while preventing employee burnout. To set the scene, I was …
Why Flexible Working Policies Fail to Support Working Parents
🤹”The juggle is real” as more parents than ever before must balance work and family life, according to recent figures from The Office for National Statistics.* With working parents making up such a huge portion of the UK’s workforce, it’s quite shocking that organisations are still not hitting the mark …
The Great Hive Report Off (Tips For Team Building Activities)
Does competition kill collaboration in the workplace? Emma Booth — Hive’s Product Owner and very own Prue Leith! — shares the story behind The Great Hive Report Off, plus her planning tips for competitive team-building activities. David Sarnoff, pioneer of American commercial Radio and Television once said: “Competition brings out …
How To Build An Employer Brand That Your People Will Love (With 5 Hints And Tips)
You may have heard that the way organisations retain and recruit talent is changing forever. How so? Well, digital transformation, workplace demographics, and even people’s lifestyles has meant that there’s never been more asked of the work environment and employee experience than right now, in 2019. Yep, gone are the …
