Someone joked about pickle and cucumber, someone claimed that their employees were already dreaming of returning to work on January 2, someone was basically surprised at the posing of the question: “Is this our problem. And indeed, before (by “before” I mean pre-pandemic times), the rescue of drowning people really was the work of the drowning people themselves. Employees themselves were looking for ways to bring themselves back to life, the most conscious googled life hacks, prepared, tuned in, the less conscious got up on the first day and, having gathered all their will into a fist, went to work in the hope of soon being back in bed in front of the TV. Someone prudently took a vacation right after the holidays, thereby making the likelihood of holiday blues appear. Now the well-being of employees is the concern of companies.
Remote work, the job seeker’s market, the BANI world - you can talk about the reasons for a long time, but the truth is that now the focus of business is really the fact that the employee is first C Level Contact List and foremost a person. With his dreams, fears, anxieties, joys, family, children and dogs (during the pandemic, these previously off-stage characters often appeared on Zoom windows during important meetings). Therefore, yes, the return of the resource state to employees after the New Year holidays is now a direct concern of business. True, perhaps not everyone has realized this yet. I will start with the experience of large organizations and end with what we have been using in our company for many years.
Ekaterina Sukhobaevskaya, career expert, leader of the Conscious Career project, ex-HRD, shared what worked in her practice. Start the first day with informal meetings in the common kitchen, where you can remember the holidays over pizza and sweets, share funny cases and impressions. Then hold a business meeting, where you remember where you left off last year, refresh your top-priority plans in your head. On the first day after the holidays, release employees from work on time no matter what. For the whole company, you can hold a small activity. For example, a photo contest where colleagues can share their thematic vacation photos or stories. This will continue the holiday feeling. Alexander Ilyin, Internal Communications Manager at Kaspersky Lab, spoke about the approaches used in their company.
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