by Noal McDonald | Employee Engagement, HR, Work From Home
All of us are struggling with feelings of burnout at some level. Please read our most recent post ‘Burnout – There Is An Escape Route‘ where we talk about this very thing. A study by Forbes found that 75% of us are experiencing burnout and 40% of us...
by Noal McDonald | Collaboration, HR
As a year comes to an end, we often take stock of where we’ve been and where we want to go. After the experiences of 2020, we have a lot to think about. One bright spot on the horizon is the potential to get the COVID-19 virus under control. It will be a blessing in...
by Noal McDonald | Communication, Employee Engagement, HR
Managing the emotional stress of COVID COVID fills every aspect of our lives. We follow the numbers of cases and deaths; watch businesses close and unemployment skyrocket; struggle with how to continue to educate our children and keep them safe. In the middle of...
by Noal McDonald | Collaboration, Comfort Zone, Employee Engagement, HR
This is Pt 3 of 3 articles written by Noal McDonald covering employee engagement and HR issues that are largely new to most businesses as we build new business practices in a new work-from-home era. Read Pt 1 ‘Will Working Remotely Be the New Normal?’...
by Noal McDonald | HR, Work From Home
When We Go Back To Work… Will Working Remotely Be the New Normal? During the pandemic, we have had to take the leap into having people work from home. Employees struggled to adjust to working at home, daily childcare and teaching, making ends meet. Employers wondered...
by Noal McDonald | HR, Noal McDonald, Work From Home
In response to the current health crisis, many of us are working from home. While some organizations already had comprehensive work from home policies in place, most of us were scrambling to get something in place as quickly as possible. We wanted everyone to be safe...