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Paperless - New Hire & Employee Files
I'm looking at going paperless - specifically for new hire paperwork and employee files. We are a mid-sized manufacturing company (175 employees). Anyone else done the same?…
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Vaccinations and Mandates
(This came to me Anonymously from an HR Executive of a mid-sized, regional company. - Steve) We are wondering how people are responding to possible vaccine mandates because we have a multi-location…
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Assessing Mentoring Capabilities
Is anyone aware of a tool to assess potential mentors' capabilities? I'm looking for something free or cost-efficient that does not require purchase of an entire mentoring platform.…
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Reasonable Suspicion - employee transportation
Hi all, If you have to transport an employee off site for reasonable suspicion testing, what is your standard process? Do you require managers to drive the employee in the manager's car?…
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Employee Retention Ideas
(This came to me anonymously from an HR Manager - Steve) We're struggling to find/hire people just like most companies and are evaluating ideas that will improve retention.…
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Staff Day Topic Ideas (Non DEI Related)
Looking for 1 hour ideas for Staff Day presentations suitable for administrative staff, not related to DEI. Thoughts?
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Building culture with FTE and Temp Associates
We are a company that is growing rapidly. Presently we have 45 FTE and over 100 temp associates in a production facility. We have historically given a gift for life events for our FTE but not our…
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Financial Wellness Resources
(This question came to me anonymously from an HR practitioner. - Steve) We are looking at employee wellbeing issues more closely than we had in the past.…
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Suggestions for Helping Employees with Burnout
I see and hear conversations from colleagues and customers about burnout. The standard answer to burnout are PTO or find a new job. What other creative ideas can we provide our customers when…
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Hybrid Work Policy
Hi Everyone - for those of you that have already implemented a Hybrid Work Policy, what key take aways do you have from it, i.e. communication, managerial related items, etc.…
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Getting more Performance Appraisal Participation
Hello! Our agency is transitioning from paper to electronic performance appraisals this year. Any advice on increasing the percentage of people completing performance appraisals?…
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Mentoring Program For New Hires
We are starting a mentoring program for new hires. It is geared to support the new hire for the first 90 days. If you have a program in place, please share what has worked and not worked for your…
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Stay Interview Templates
All, With the recent SHRM article "Turnover ‘Tsunami’ Expected Once Pandemic Ends", what are we planning on doing to help keep our top talent? One tool that we plan to ramp up the use of is Stay…
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Employee Marketplace Site
Are there any companies out there that have an employee site for employees to post items for sale, give away, swap? Something like Facebook Marketplace.…
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Manager Counseling Help
Help! We have a manager at my org who is basically a bully. He gets work done but has no business managing people. He's demeaning to employees, females especially,…
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MBO Style Performance Review Template
Hello All, Hoping to get some help on a project I am working on. I am revamping our 20-year old employee performance review process and looking to move to a Manage by Objective (MBO) evaluation…
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Check- in templates for New Employees
Good morning, Would someone be able to share a template with questions for 1 week and a 30-day check-in to use? Any help in this is greatly appreciated. Thank you! - Evanjelina
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Continuous Listening Articles, People Element
Our amazing thought leader, Megan Younkin, recently posted a 2 part series of articles on Continuous Listening on our Blog I thought I'd share with all you lava-lamp loving HR Netters! Cheers,…
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Employee Health - Virtual Office Study
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are conducting a research survey about the stress and burnout experienced by virtual workers. The survey will take less than 20 minutes to complete.…
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Break Time for Nursing Mothers
Does your business include a policy in your employee handbook about providing break and space for nursing mothers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”)? https://www.dol.…
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Looking for Leadership and Management Competencies that Foster Employee Wellbeing
(This came to me from HR practitioner Amanda Langsley from Scotland - Steve) I wanted to do some crowdsourcing with fellow HR Netters and ask: "What do you see as the key leadership and management…
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2021 Employee Engagement Report
My company just released our 2021 Engagement report! The report is based on findings from our 2020 engagement data, along with valuable insights gained, and helpful recommendations and resources.…
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Employee Appraisal revamp
We are a small manufacturing company (50 people). Our appraisal system is old and arduous. I am looking at revamping it so that our employees are getting better feedback more often.…
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Employee Relations and Strategy
(This came to me anonymously from an HR Executive - Steve) We're taking a look at ways to capture and measure the effectiveness of those that manage employees with the intent of setting a baseline…
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Hiring Warehouse - Ghosting
Is it just our industry (wholesale plumbing) or is everyone seeing a lot of ghosting going on? We have hired a couple new employees they show up for few days then they just don't show up or call or…
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