Unlocking the Power of Data: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Employee Engagement, DEIB, Retention, and Wellbeing

Unlocking the Power of Data: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Employee Engagement, DEIB, Retention, and Wellbeing Descriptive analysis is a type of analysis that focuses on summarizing and describing data. It involves analyzing data to identify patterns, trends, and relationships among variables. In the context of employee engagement, retention, and wellbeing, descriptive analysis can be used to understand the current state of employee engagement, retention, and wellbeing within an organization. It can provide insight into factors that influence employee engagement, retention, and wellbeing, and help identify areas for improvement. To support a comprehensive people insights measurement strategy, it's important to [...]

Why Wellbeing Should Be a Top HR Priority in 2023

As human resources leaders, it's essential to prioritize employee wellbeing in the workplace. Supporting employee wellbeing is not only the right thing to do, but it also makes good business sense. When employees feel valued and supported, they're more likely to be engaged, productive, and satisfied in their jobs. This ultimately leads to a better workplace culture and a more successful business overall. The Benefits of Investing in Employee Wellbeing Investing in employee wellbeing has numerous benefits for both the individual and the organization. A thriving workforce is one that experiences reduced absenteeism and turnover rates, improved job satisfaction, and [...]

Diversity in the Workplace

Our work plays a vital role in creating and maintaining inclusive and diverse organizations, and we also believe that diversity and inclusion goes far beyond just hiring a diverse workforce. It requires promoting an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, heard, and included. By doing so, we can create further cultures of belonging where everyone is represented in organizational decisions and equity is universal. A diverse and inclusive workplace has been proven to be more productive, innovative, and profitable. In this article, we’ll explain why diversity is important and provide actionable recommendations that companies can take to further [...]

The Importance of Measuring Employee Wellbeing Post-Layoff

As the world grapples with navigating post-pandemic impacts and economic uncertainty, many companies are turning to layoffs as a means of cost-cutting. In the tech industry, in particular, layoffs have been on the rise lately with more tech employees laid off in the first three months of 2023 than in all of 2022 [1]. While layoffs can be required to support organizational sustainability, they can have a significant impact on employee wellbeing. Measuring employee wellbeing post-layoff can help companies rebound quicker and build a stronger, more resilient workforce. We know what you’re probably thinking… measuring employee wellbeing following a [...]

2023-05-03T20:48:17+00:00May 3, 2023|Employee Experience|

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 [...]

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 [...]

2022-07-14T14:12:28+00:00July 15, 2021|Employee Engagement, Employee Experience|

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 [...]

2022-07-14T14:15:50+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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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