Category: Office Life

How Included Do Your Remote Employees Feel?

The question posed by the title of this article is not an idle one.  It is, in fact, an essential question and one that’s vitally important. Too often, managers and business owners have an “out of sight, out of mind” philosophy regarding their remote workers.  Unfortunately, these days, that kind of thinking can really come […]

How To Make Remote Employees Feel Included

If you’re like most managers these days, the ongoing pandemic has a great many of your employees working from home.  That fact has made life difficult for employees and managers alike, and one of the most commonly heard complaints from remote workers is that they feel isolated and cut off from their coworkers. This isn’t […]

Three Great Activities To Engage Remote Employees

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has given rise to a number of challenges and has seen millions of people working from home and learning new ways of adapting.  One of the biggest problems faced by remote workers is the sense of isolation, and combatting that has proven to be a daunting challenge for even the most […]

How To Reward Those Who Come Back After COVID-19 Lifts

Although it may not seem like it right now, the global pandemic will eventually end.  When it does, life will begin returning to normal.  People will start coming back into the office again after an extended hibernation working from home. The simple truth is that in a lot of companies, not everyone will come back.  […]

Improve Morale and Keep Your Work-From-Home Employees Engaged With This Planter Set

With most, if not all of your employees working from home these days, morale –and hence engagement may be negatively affected. It’s no fun being cooped up inside all days and worse, there’s no end in sight yet.  With that in mind, if you’re looking for a fun, easy, and inexpensive way to help lift […]

Keeping Morale High During the Coronavirus Pandemic

We live in uncertain times.  Recently, with the Coronavirus being everywhere in the news, the sense of fear is electric, running like a current through our daily lives.  Naturally, that has an impact on job performance.  How could it not?  When people are scared, they’re not going to be performing at their best. Given that […]

HR Trends for The Next Decade

For decades, HR employees have been seen as diligent paper pushers.  Business owners tended to view them as that quiet group in the back who reviewed resumes and scolded people when they broke the rules.  Times, as they say, they are a’changing, and HR is growing up. Now, they’re much more people focused than paper […]

How Giving Plants To Your Employees Can Transform Your Company

Mike Robinson and his wife run a small engineering firm in Canada that employs about twenty people.  Mike handles the technical side of the business, and his wife handles the people.  Several years ago, his wife, Suzanne, gave him an idea.  Why not give every member of the company a plant they could keep at […]

The Best Gifts to Send a Team Member Off to Retirement

No matter how long someone has been with a company, retirement is a remarkable milestone in life worth celebrating. Unlike a birthday, retirement typically only happens once and marks the end of a long career and the start of a new chapter. Some people have been anxiously counting the days while others aren’t sure they’re […]

Brighten Up Your Office & Boost Productivity With These Fantastic Motivational Posters

Looking for a cost-effective way to boost morale and productivity and give your office a facelift?  If so, then may we recommend our award-winning line of motivational posters?  We’ve got something for every taste and preference, and even better, each of these prints come in a variety of framing options.  Here are a few examples: […]