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Every year, Employee Appreciation Day is celebrated on the first Friday in March - This is the official day to thank employees for their contributions to your organization. Recognition and appreciation can boost morale, increase employee engagement and reduce turnover.

Intrinsic motivation is essential to stay productive when working from home. At the same time, adding simple activities to your daily routine can help you feel your best productive self and master remote work. From having a routine, to managing online meetings – here’s a list of tips that will help you when working remotely.

Today’s HR professionals and business leaders face unprecedented challenges in attracting, engaging, and retaining their people. These challenges are expensive.

The stress reduction benefits alone may be incentive enough to incorporate laughter into your workplace daily routine, but when added to the benefits of team collaboration, productivity, and creativity, laughter becomes an impactful employee engagement tool.

There is a direct relationship between transparent leadership, increased employee alignment, operational efficiency, and customer loyalty.

Diversity and inclusion programs, and the progressive thinking behind them, are essential to organizations – influencing their values, culture, policies, and procedures.

At a time when there are more open positions than there are qualified candidates to fill them, there's a buyer's market for those who are seeking quality work experience. That leads the most talented candidates to become more discerning about where they work.

There’s a spectrum of psychological, emotional and social needs employees have to meet in order to perform well, connect with their organization, and find purpose in their work. More leaders are paying close attention to this spectrum. And for good reason, too.

Bottom line: employees that are truly engaged are more productive, make customers happier, and are less likely to leave their organizations. Here’s a good overview of why engagement matters, and even some tips on how to achieve it.

When the pandemic took hold in mid-March, we heard one urgent question: how do we keep our employees engaged through this?

Building employee engagement and culture is a complex project to tackle. Why not start by jotting down some ideas into a simple checklist?

The American nonprofit organization Cultural Vistas believes that "understanding our evolving world is the first step toward changing it." This philosophy is the driving force behind Cultural Vistas' work.

Your company’s culture is its guiding beacon. Without direction, your team can fall off course or drift apart; potentially, leading to disengagement and turnover. While there are numerous suggestions for what your culture should look like, let's focus on how you’re communicating it.

Corporate values are a powerful tool and should be top of mind for HR professionals and leaders. The right values have the power to connect your entire workforce and drive everyone toward a shared goal.

Leading companies have been investing resources and time into data management for years; HR has not yet used these insights to their full potential. How can HR teams use analytics to their advantage?

Employee engagement is the emotional commitment your people have to your organization. You can achieve high engagement if you pursue a people-first strategy.

You know that a quality employee recognition program will do wonders for your company, but how do you get your leadership on board?

Here at Kudos, we think employees should feel recognized every day, but it never hurts to make your team feel extra special on this important day.