As the pandemic winds down, many employers are not fully returning their workforce to the office. However, keeping the team fully remote isn’t always optimal for meeting their business needs. MP’s HR services team shares three hybrid work models to optimize the employee experience and an organization’s ability to meet its business goals. Read the article to:
• Find out how to implement a hybrid work model while ensuring compliance
• Determine the best hybrid work environments for your workplace
• Get tips on supervising remote employees
• Learn how to optimize the performance of remote teams
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3 Reasons Why Your Team Should Be Using Employee Surveys in 2021
Employee surveys are always a great tool for employee engagement. Whether anonymous or named, they can help employers get a better understanding about how their workforce feels about various issues, how engaged they are, and also helps the staff to feel empowered as they share their opinions. (MP offers robust survey software that allows for custom, pre-created, anonymous, and named surveys. It also shares data in user-friendly reports.) Right now, an employee pulse survey could be especially helpful. A staff survey could help as employers handle three pressing initiatives for 2021. Read the article to:
• Learn how employee surveys are powerful tools for developing return to work plans
• Find out how employee surveys support employers in strategizing their approach to the COVID vaccine in the workplace
• Get tips on how to use employee surveys to track vaccination status in an ADA compliant way
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2021 Tax Updates for Managing Remote Workers
Many employers have been managing remote workers successfully since the start of the pandemic. Some have found that employees working remotely are so much happier, more engaged, and more productive that the company wants to continue the arrangement. Unfortunately, depending on the locations of the employees and workplace, both employer and employee might wind up owing extra taxes. Read the article to:
• Learn from MP’s HR and payroll experts share what to know if they’ll be managing a team working from home
• Find out how the tax landscape may be changing as more employers allow remote work
• Get concrete tips on how to optimize return to work plans for reduced tax risk
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Remote Hiring and Recruiting: Top 4 Challenges and Solutions
Working remotely has become widespread and many employees are now expecting the option to maintain a schedule of working at least partially remote. This means companies need to be ready for remote hiring. Virtual hiring and recruiting can be equally as complicated as supervising remote employees, if not more. MP’s HR services experts share the top 3 challenges and solutions for hiring remote employees. Read the article to:
• Learn how to showcase corporate culture, even when a candidate never comes to the office
• Find out how to handle the awkwardness of video calls
• Get tactics for keeping a candidate engaged through the full cycle of the hiring process
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Engaging Remote Workers and Preventing Burnout: 10 Key Strategies
Employers everywhere are concerned about burnout right now, but especially when they’re supervising remote employees. Not being able to see them or be in the same room makes it hard to gauge employee engagement for remote employees. HR providers like MP urges employers to take burnout seriously. Research has consistently shown that burnt out employees aren’t just unhappy, they are also more likely to take sick days, have lower productivity, influence others on their team negatively, or even leave their employers for new positions. In partnership with Taryn Abrahams, founder of Empower Behavioral Services, LLC, MP’s HR services team shares a resource for managers and HR departments with 10 proven tactics that they can start implementing now to fight burnout and build a better corporate culture, even when their team is working remotely. Read the article to:
• Find out why you should never cancel a meeting
• Learn concrete methods to demonstrate empathy and connect with employees
• Get tips on what to do if workers are struggling in their personal lives
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5 HR Compliance Tips for Offboarding and Firing in a Remote Workforce
Supervising remote employees isn’t easy, but terminating and offboarding them is even more challenging. Employers that don’t follow all applicable laws and regulations are opening themselves up to fines, complaints, lawsuits, and (in the age of the internet) a bad reputation as an employer. Read the article to:
Learn 5 tips for handling offboarding to reduce damage to morale and your reputation as an employer
Find out how HR services experts suggest you get equipment back from former employees
Discover what HR providers advise employers to do to stay in compliance during a layoff, termination, or just mutual parting of ways
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