With almost every business operating on less than requires human resources and a lack of potential candidates for the available vacancies, it has become vital for businesses to focus on retaining their remaining employees. While it may sound challenging, retaining employees is a simple and easy task that can be accomplished by improving employees’ lives.
As a business owner or management, you can take the following measures to enhance employee wellbeing and promote a work-life balance:
Focus on Productivity, Not Hours
Measuring employee productivity allows employees to be their most efficient selves. On the other hand, when the workplace only focuses on the time the employees spend, it diminishes their creativity and efficiency. Thus, one of the best ways for improving employees’ lives is by measuring their performance and not counting their hours. You will be surprised at how much your employees can accomplish in six hours when they are tempted to leave the office two hours early.
Don’t Overwork Employees
If your business lacks the required human resource to operate at full capacity, reduce your output until you can find the resources to take up the work left. Forcing employees to take up the burden of those who have left the company makes them feel like they are getting punished for not quitting, which only encourages them to quit. Therefore, don’t disrupt your remaining employees’ work-life balance just because you cannot find more workforce.
Overworked employees are likelier to fall sick, get stressed, and feel burned out. Thus, you must care for employee wellbeing no matter if you have five hundred or fifty employees.
Offer Flexible Schedules or Hybrid Work Environment
Flexible schedules, hybrid work environments, and work-from-home are among the most popular employee benefits in 2023. The popularity of these benefits is not surprising as they have been shown improving employees’ lives drastically. Hence, offering your employees any benefits is a sure-shot way to earn their loyalty.
Allow Frequent Breaks
While work-from-home and flexible schedules are sought-after by employees, they can prove useless if you expect them to be continuously available online or during whatever shift they pick. Your employee would much rather come into work and take bathroom or coffee breaks as they please than justify every time they go offline for two minutes during work from home. This means that flexible work timing gives employees the independence to work as they like.
Working from home is so popular because it allows employees to practice work-life balance. Don’t ruin this reason for them.
Offer Useful Employee Benefits
Provide practical employee benefits that your employees can utilize. Employee benefits can be as important to employees as the number on their weekly cheques. Hence, ensure that your employees are happy with what you provide them. If they are not, evaluate their needs and offer them the benefits that contribute towards improving employees’ lives.
Finally, don’t forget that each employee may have different needs. Stay connected to your employees and informed on their needs to retain each remaining employee for as long as you need them.
