Which employee benefits make you an attractive employer?
Workations abroad, workplace massages, personal trainers, or bringing your dog to the office—these benefits no longer surprise us. The range...
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Research analyzes ‘Moments That Matter’ during onboarding
The onboarding phase: a key determinant of engagement and success For many newcomers, the onboarding phase is crucial in shaping...
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Neurodiversity adds value to your organization
Neurodiversity in the workplace is gaining more attention in organizations Neurodiversity in the workplace is receiving increasing attention within organizations....
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Employee Experience at VodafoneZiggo: ‘Understand People to Exceed Their Expectations’
VodafoneZiggo aims to place people at the heart of all its operations as a core strategic objective, with a strong...
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A Well-Organized Employee Experience: This is What EX Champions Do
According to research, employee experience is high on the agenda for 60% of HR professionals. But how do you organize...
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Will the Dialogue Tool Outperform the Employee Survey?
Organizations that want to give employees more input are increasingly using ‘dialogue tools.’ Instead of surveys, they use open-ended questions...
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What HR Can Learn from Marketing for Better Employee Experience: 4 Insights
Companies making strides in employee experience (EX) tend to see better results from the interventions they implement. However, these initiatives...
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Employee Experience at Randstad: ‘Letting Go of Old Habits and Learning New Ones’
Randstad Group Netherlands started its employee experience (EX) journey four years ago. Heleen Mes, an expert in the field, spoke...
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“Employee Experience is Truly New Wine in New Bottles”
Many HR professionals recognize the importance of a good Employee Experience (EX), but they often struggle with how to effectively...
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Employee Experience Research 2024: How to Make Progress!
60% of HR professionals now rank employee experience (EX) as a (very) high priority within their organizations. However, only 1...
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AI Replaces Employee Surveys!
Can AI take over the annual employee survey or the periodic occupational health survey (PAGO)? Yes, says employee experience expert...
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Staff shortages and still getting the job done: invest in workplace happiness for increased productivity
The labor market tightness is at an unprecedented high, with more job vacancies than ever before. Since the outbreak of...
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9 tips for starting with employee experience
Employee experience (EX) has risen to become one of the top 3 HR priorities according to research among HR professionals....
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The 3 superpowers of employee experience!
A tight labor market, rising turnover rates averaging 20%, higher absenteeism, more mental health issues, lower recommendation of the employer,...
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Increase workplace happiness: appreciate what truly drives employees in their work
Lack of appreciation and recognition ranks high on the list of things that make employees unhappy at work. With far-reaching...
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Increase employee experience through learning and development
Investing in growth and development enhances employees’ satisfaction, motivation, and happiness in their current roles. What can an organization do...
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Less meetings for more vitality
Increasing vitality is a necessity. According to research by TNO and CBS, 1.3 million people experience burnout symptoms. On average,...
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This is how you heighten an employees’ ‘intention to stay’
The ‘intention to stay’ with their own organisstion is decreasing among employees. How can you turn the tide in your...
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Having difficulty with retention? Use MAGIC in the workplace
Retention by inspiring and connecting your employees? Try MAGIC: Meaning, Autonomy, Growth, Impact and Community. What is it? And how...
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Positively influence the employee journey: 5 inspiring techniques
When shaping new meaningful experiences, organisations should use positive influencing techniques like priming, framing, nudging and playful work design. Some...
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5 characteristics of a continuous listening strategy
If your aim is to listen to your employees, annual surveys are no longer sufficient. To learn from your employees’...
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National Employee Experience Survey NL 2022: HR rates its own organisation only a 6.7!
Employee experience is a major HR priority internationally. But how is employee experience faring in the Netherlands? The results of...
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Want to improve the employee journey? This is how you start!
Optimizing your organisation’s employee journey offers many advantages: the organisation becomes more attractive on the job market, the employees’ creativity...
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Is employee engagement in the Netherlands really only 12%?
A respected international research study found that the Netherlands scores very low on employee engagement. But of course there are...
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How can you make your employees happy?
Employee experience is about increasing employee happiness at work. But how do you do that? Start with the company’s purpose...
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Will HR and Facility Management integrate? These companies are already doing it!
Hybrid work raises new issues and challenges for HR and Facility Management in their continuous quest to best serve employees....
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Hybrid working and performance review. How can we deal with this?
Hybrid working is now the new norm in most organisations, and consequently most managers are finding that they have less...
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The best metrics for employee experience
Working on employee experience means your (HR) organisation must be data-driven. So…no choices based on gut feelings, personal expertise or...
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What HR can contribute to the digital employee experience
The technology and tools an organization works with are pillars of the employee experience. Digitization therefore plays a major role...
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Quality of employership on 4 levels: where does your organisation stand?
We can roughly divide the quality of employership into four levels: from the lowest level, where the employer regards its...
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The ultimate employee experience is human experience
The term employee experience was first introduced about five years ago and has quickly became synonymous with next level HR:...
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Your organisational culture is already on the street. 5 tips for making a better impression.
Your organisation’s culture is increasingly visible to the outside world, without people even having to step inside. It’s not only...
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’The best employee experience does not always rate a 10/10 for happiness at work’
Does your organization want to increase employee happiness at work? If yes, do not focus on outcomes but rather the...
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Hybrid working? Strengthen the organisational culture!
Organisational culture is demonstrated by how your employees interact, but what if hybrid working has severely limited such interactions? Watering...
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5 tips for more diversity, inclusion and true equality
Feeling a sense of belonging in the workplace is crucial for good employee experiences. Moreover, ignoring disadvantaged and unfairly treated...
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Increase engagement? Do a ‘check-in’ interview.
Check-in interviews, which are conversations between a manager and an employee or between team members, invite deeper personal interaction, allowing...
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7 steps to your HR strategy
A good HR strategy helps an organisation achieve its purpose or mission, vision and strategic objectives. The organization’s HR strategy...
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The Employee Experience hacked!
How can you make your organisation and HR policy employee-centric? As part of the HR Business Network’s 25th anniversary celebrations,...
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Online onboarding: Attention is everything!
In this age of corona, many organisations face this question: how can we arrange a good online onboarding? For those...
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Employee Experience: the emotional connection with employees is essential
Emotions – the employees’ feelings when interacting with the organisation – largely define the employee experience. Feelings? In organisations, we...
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7 trends for HR in 2021
Looking back on HR research topics that clearly predate the coronavirus crisis, I feel slightly melancholic. We may well be...
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7 lessons in employee experience design from leading practitioners
A great employee experience is not a fluke nor does it happen naturally – you must design it. What can...
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Happiness at work on the agenda for five years now: What have we achieved?
Happiness at work first became a trend back in 2015. Since then we have gained a ‘Happiness at Work Week’...
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Employee Experience and HRM: 8 differences
Employee experience is not just a trendier word for Human Resource Management. It is not simply a slick repackaging. Employee...
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Preventing HR-mistakes with employee experience design
A great employee experience is not a fluke, nor does it happen automatically – you must design it! Employee experience...
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Reboarding? 7 tips to make employees feel welcome in the workplace
Prior to the lockdown, reboarding meant including employees in strategic changes. Reboarding after the lockdown primarily means including employees in...
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5 reasons why working with personas HR helps in the employee journey
If HR wants to improve employee experience, an important step is to work with personas that represent the own employees....
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Playful Work Design: play with your work
We often organise fun activities at work, outside of our actual work or working hours: we’ll play ping pong during...
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Employee Experience: 10 future trends in the workplace
Employee experience is an employee’s experience and emotions when interacting with the organisation, and the extent to which they meet...
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Employee Experience: Experiencing WOW at work
What if I were to ask you what you remember from the past year. You might remember an awesome birthday...
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Employee Experience: step into your employee’s shoes!
Implementing the employee experience is possible only when the organisation is ready for it. When employees really come first. When they...
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