
This year has been a challenge for most businesses, and especially for HR managers as companies transition to a work-from-home workforce. We’ve discussed the trends in marketing next year; here are some trends that experts predict we’ll see in 2021 for human resource professionals:
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Topics:
employee rewards,
Engaged Employees,
Employee Incentive Program,
improve employee engagement,
Incentive Marketing,
marketing incentive,
Human Resources

It is an understatement: 2020 has been a crazy year! Many organizations have moved to a work-from-home model. Workers are finding themselves balancing their work schedule with that of their spouse and kid’s schoolwork. The fight for the computers and laptops is likely settled by now. For 2021, what is keeping marketers up at night? Here are some marketing trends to watch in 2021:
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Topics:
employee rewards,
Engaged Employees,
Employee Incentive Program,
improve employee engagement,
Incentive Marketing,
marketing incentive

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are an increasingly popular way for all stakeholders, not just investors, to evaluate companies. Many mutual funds, brokerage firms, and robot-advisors now offer products that employ ESG criteria. ESG criteria can also help investors, employees, contractors, and others avoid companies that might pose a greater overall risk due to their environmental or other practices. What can ESG criteria mean for your business?
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Topics:
Employee Recognition Programs,
Employee Incentive Program,
improve employee engagement,
incentive and recognition programs,
Reward and Recognition Programs

There are many definitions of employee engagement. In a nutshell, employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization.
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Topics:
Employee Reward Programs,
Engaged Employees,
Disengaged Employees,
Employee Incentive Program,
improve employee engagement,
Recognize and Reward

Although employee incentive, reward and recognition programs are popular, many program coordinators skip the steps that would prove their effectiveness. Critics of these programs claim that they’re not measurable, they are nice to have but can’t document any financial benefit to the company. In fact, it is possible – and advisable – to measure employee programs. The latest Incentive Research Foundation study reports how many companies are measuring success.
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Topics:
Employee Reward and Recognition Programs,
employee engagement,
Employee Incentive Program,
improve employee engagement,
Remote Employees,
Remote Employees during Coronavirus

The pandemic has affected every business and every employee. When businesses make necessary accommodations and transition employees to a work-from-home environment, it is tempting for companies to focus on the immediate crisis and put employee programs on the back burner. Putting employee programs on hold may be the worst thing businesses can do.
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Topics:
Employee Incentive Program,
improve employee engagement,
Motivating Employees,
Employee Engagement for Remote Workers,
COVID Impact

It seems like there’s a day for everything: National Pizza Day, National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, National Siblings Day…not to mention the actual National Holidays. How can reward & recognition programs leverage National Awareness Days?
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Topics:
employee engagement,
improve employee engagement,
national awareness days

Most companies have some sort of employee engagement initiative underway and company leaders expect tangible benefits from those initiatives. Fortunately, there is data that proves that companies with high employee engagement and a positive culture enjoy greater customer engagement and profitability.
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Topics:
employee engagement,
Employee Incentive Program,
improve employee engagement,
increase profits