Marc Haine discusses how companies can retain employees through stress-relief workshops, better communication, and community events like shared lunches. He argues that investing in these practices boosts productivity and keeps people from leaving.
If you were to put that into a packaging of 3 to 5 things that constitutes employee investment, what would you think that is?
First of all, knowledge sharing. That they're given the time and inclination to really dive into the expertise where they are sitting. You've brought in consultants to do workshops on stress relief, bring down their stress levels, to raise their productivity, even interrelational communications, not coming from a crisis. So the other thing we did is make sure that lunch was a community event. Mm-hmm. So everyone in the company had time to talk to each other, share their excitement about what was going on, ask questions.
