Jason Ruebel, Author at Talmetrix

What to Do About Your Black Employees Not Wanting to Return to the Office

As explored in a recent article, only 3% of Black knowledge workers want to return to working in the office. Some of the reasons included microaggressions, less of a feeling of belonging and lack of recovery and processing time for systemic issues. Though there are a myriad of reasons why employees would prefer to choose to work from home, companies will need to find ways to address these issues for a successful transition back to the routine of working in the office. Let’s first take a look at what’s important to Black employees as demonstrated in our Diversity & [...]

Jason Ruebel2023-05-03T20:49:24+00:00December 13, 2021|Covid19, Culture, DEI, Diversity, Inclusion, Uncategorized|

3 Reasons Why Your Black Employees Don’t Want to Return to the Office

Despite the recent rise in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant, millions of American workers have been returning to working in the office this summer. And, still more are headed back to the office this fall and winter. It’s an understatement to say there are mixed feelings about returning to the traditional routine of commuting to and working in the office on a daily basis. Indeed, there are a number of employees with negative perceptions of doing so. However, there’s one group with such low opinion around working in the office – Black employees. The Future Forum ran [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:11:29+00:00December 13, 2021|Covid19, Culture, DEI, Diversity, Employee Experience, Equality, Racism, Remote Work, Uncategorized|

Reimagining Work Beyond Return to the Workplace

It started as a trickle, but has turned into a stream. Organizations have called employees back into the office or have announced their intended plans to do so. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic – where safety was found in social distancing – forced companies to quickly find ways to make remote work a reality for a large majority of the workforce. Now in some cases, the decision to return to the workplace is being made just as quickly. We believe that this is a time to reimagine work. It’s time to think about: ● What worked well during remote [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:12:28+00:00July 15, 2021|Employee Engagement, Employee Experience|

Top Five Tips to More Effectively Embed Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into Your Organizational Culture

If culture could be represented as the fabric of an organization, then diversity, equity and inclusion is an essential thread that helps create that fabric. Many organizations are grappling with how to create an inclusive and equitable environment in order to retain employees and engage them to do their best work. That effort cannot succeed unless the organization’s culture reflects and supports it. “Culture” Defined An iceberg analogy¹ is a great way to describe organizational culture — it’s hard to see, measure and define, but determines how employees navigate. Specifically, culture is a set of assumptions that guide [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:12:52+00:00July 15, 2021|DEI, Diversity, Equality, Inclusion|

What We Can Learn From Women Leaving the Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic

865,000 women left the U.S. workforce in September 2020.¹ This mass departure, or “she-cession” trend continued for months until May 2021 when, finally, gains were made to help reverse this trend. A part of the increases in employment for women are a result of the expanding opportunities being most often in fields, like hospitality, that tend to employ women more often. As companies continue to rebuild, it’s worth reviewing – what led to the she-cession and how can we make sure that more women continue to find fulfilling employment opportunities? What Women Want [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:13:35+00:00July 15, 2021|Covid19, Employee Engagement, Equality, Inclusion|

Let’s Make the Most of this Moment: What Diversity Means Now

by Chris Powell, CEO, Talmetrix The COVID-19 pandemic was an accelerant to change. Remote work, virtual teams, a pause on business travel. The adjustments we made led us to reconsider the “old” ways of doing things: Did we really have to travel that much? Could our teams actually be more productive remotely? And we got an unusually intimate look into each other’s lives on Zoom -- kids and pets in the background, clothes hanging off the elliptical, makeshift home offices. It’s going to take time to digest what happened - individually and collectively. And to consider how we want to [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:15:50+00:00March 29, 2021|Covid19, DEI, Diversity, Employee Experience, Equality, Inclusion|

The Learner’s Group and Talmetrix announce strategic partnership

PRESS RELEASE Chicago, Il – February 4, 2021 – The Learner’s Group (TLG) and Talmetrix are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership, combining The Learner’s Group’s solutions-based consulting services with Talmetrix’s ability to humanize talent data to provide actionable metrics that organizations can use to increase employee engagement. This partnership comes at an opportune time when data collection and analysis are crucial elements to every company’s success. The TLG- Talmetrix partnership unites several complementary skill sets. Talmetrix excels at humanizing talent data, while TLG has a proven record of personalizing and customizing culture enhancing deliverables. The [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:22:54+00:00January 28, 2021|DEI, Diversity, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Equality, Inclusion, Talmetrix|

The Often Unspoken Truth About Employee Engagement

Employees are responsible for it, too We talk about employee engagement. A lot. We measure it, predict it and help companies improve it. As a feedback and analytics company, people reach out to us to help them discover how they can improve business results by ensuring that employees are at optimal engagement. Our experience has yielded a some key findings, including: Companies deploy employee engagement surveys that often measure job satisfaction, not engagement. Most Everyone -- from the marketplace to employees, managers and leaders in organizations -- assume that engagement is solely the company’s responsibility. Most Traditional Employee Engagement Surveys [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:23:36+00:00September 16, 2020|Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, IMPACT Survey, Managers, Talmetrix|

7 Employee Personas That Prove You Have an Employee Engagement Problem

In this moment, we are forced to creatively manage our lives and businesses given the challenges of COVID-19. We’re doing more with less — less cost, less facetime, less clarity. For business leaders, it may appear that employees are grateful to be employed. But, does that mean they are engaged? Even prior to these conditions, business news regularly bombarded us with messaging that the U.S. workforce is disengaged. If you’re a part of an organization that conducts yearly engagement surveys, your analytics may also raise the question, what do we need to improve? At Talmetrix, we believe that engagement is [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:24:03+00:00August 26, 2020|Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, IMPACT Survey, Managers, Talmetrix|

The Diversity X-Factor: Managers

Leaders are making commitments to diversity. But, it’s managers’ actions that matter more than you may realize. 2020 has been a year of defining events that became worldwide shared experiences. While we collectively grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic and living within a patchwork of governmental advisories and work from home arrangements, we witnessed appalling injustices, including George Floyd’s tragic death. Those events sparked national protests which raised awareness of racial injustices. As protestors flooded the streets demanding civic and social changes to equalize Black Lives, many companies joined the chorus for justice by making public commitments to diversity, adding [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:24:18+00:00August 12, 2020|Diversity, Employee Experience, Managers, Racism, Talmetrix|

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