📈 Trending in work culture: What is employee experience?
Get an in-depth exploration of the latest trends and strategies aimed at enhancing the overall employee experience, from innovative approaches to team bonding and collaboration.
If you asked employers what their top priorities were a decade ago, the term "employee experience" wouldn't have even been on the list. 📝
➡️ In the last few years there has been a surge in the employee experience movement. Leaders are examining the entire employee journey — from joining to leaving — to understand what the experience is like for their employees.
So, why the change of heart? 🤔
💡 A new report from Gallup found that absent engagement in the workplace amounts to $1.9 trillion in lost productivity, given that less than a third of employees said they were engaged.
Low engagement, quiet quitting, rage applying, or even a bad Glassdoor review can negatively impact your business outcomes. 📊
We're sharing what you need to know about employee experience and how to improve it. Let's dive in.👇
In today's edition:
👀 Why is employee experience important?
📈 How to improve employee experience
📖 Deeper dive: How to create an employee experience strategy
👀 Why is employee experience important?
Employee experience is how an employee experiences a company through recruitment, onboarding, employment, and off boarding. Here's why it's important:
👉 Engagement: An exceptional employee experience means employees are more likely to be engaged. Companies with an engaged workforce outperform companies with disengaged workforces.
👉 Recruiting: A strong employer brand can help attract top talent. By investing in employee experience from the first screening call to the exit interview, you’re strengthening your company culture and employer brand simultaneously.
👉 Retention:
Employee turnover is expensive. It’s estimated that the US spends up to one trillion dollars (!!!) in turnover expenses every year. But if the employee experience is good, they’re more likely to stay.
📈 How to improve employee experience
So, what are simple ways you can start improving employee experience?
👥 Build community: A quick way to improve an employee’s experience is to bolster their community. Try encouraging friendships or facilitating icebreakers where employees can bond and share pieces of their life with each other.
🚨 PRO TIP: Automate community-building and get to know teammates a little better each week with Icebreakers by Airspeed.
🧑🎓 Provide professional opportunities: Providing growth opportunities (like new projects or mentorship) for employees at all levels shows that the company is making an investment in them long-term.
🧘 Prioritize work-life balance: If employees are overworked and burnt out, they won’t produce their best work. Check in on their workload and stress levels regularly. Consider setting up flexible work options, update your PTO policies, and offer mental health days.
Get 3 more ideas and learn how to create an employee experience strategy in our latest blog post.
✨ Hey, culture champ. You might also like these resources:
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See you next time! 👋
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