{"id":20460,"date":"2019-10-16T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T10:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=20460"},"modified":"2019-10-16T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T10:04:57","slug":"employee-experience-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/employee-experience-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Experience Importance in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#b2999d;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #b2999d;\">Employee Experience Importance<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#b2999d;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have been witnessing a <strong>turnover<\/strong> on how employees see their work. The stigma about changing jobs \u2018disappeared: sticking with the same job for most of your life is not everyone\u2019s main goal anymore. In Europe, in 2016, the voluntary turnover rate was 7,1%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, organisations face the <strong>challenge<\/strong> of retaining top talents working for them. As an answer, \u201c<strong>Employee Experience\u201d<\/strong> started gaining attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Employee experience is everything a worker <strong>experiences<\/strong> during their time as employee in a company, including his\/her expectations and perceptions of the company\u2019s workforce, rules, workplace, culture\u2026etc. Organisations need to <strong>adopt strategies to strengthen<\/strong> employee experience<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salary is not the only thing candidates focus on while looking for a job. Many other factors can influence their decision of working for a specific company. They are looking for companies that can offer them an experience that meets their expectations: company values, work environment\u2026 etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To implement Employee Experience, companies need to understand their employees\u2019 needs &amp; motivations to adopt the right strategies. One way to improve Employee Experience is to develop the <strong>On-boarding process<\/strong> to ensure integration and avoid turnover. The\u00a0<strong>buddy system<\/strong>\u00a0is a strategy that can be implemented during the onboarding process. It consists of assigning a \u201cbuddy\u201d to the new hires i.e. someone who already works in the company and has all necessary insights to make the person feel comfortable in his\/her new position by helping them integrate the company and guiding them. on the day-to-day aspects during the first two months. Another strategy that can be implemented after a new hire\u00a0is the\u00a0<strong>30\/60\/90-day plan<\/strong>, which is a way to organise goals and priorities, on the first 90 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Workplaces\u00a0<\/strong>are also related to employee experience. Given that employees spend a significant amount of time in their office, companies have been trying to create spaces where employees would feel comfortable thanks to a great work environment. Access to new and useful technology, furniture, right temperature, right noise levels, adequate lightning \u2026 etc are have a huge impact on an employee\u2019s efficiency and productivity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another outgrowing concern for employees is that they want to be heard and involved in the decision-making process by being allowed to voice their opinions and suggestions. Meaning that companies need to empower them. Empowered workers are not only more productive but more committed. On a Steelcase Global Report from 2016 in France, only 34% of participants said that their company values and recognises their employees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Empowering employees<\/strong> is another strategy that helps improve employee experience. Empowered workers are not only more productive but more committed. A Steelcase Global Report from 2016 in France, showed that only 34% of participants felt like companies\u2019 value and recognise their employees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 2017 study conducted by Jacob Morgan, showed that companies investing in Employee Experience <strong>outperform <\/strong>the ones who do not as it leads to an improvement on the <strong>Employee Engagement <\/strong>\u2013 the connection employees feel towards the company, their involvement, and level of integration at work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Employee Experience became a <strong>vital<\/strong> part of organisations. It impacts earnings, absenteeism, productivity and even the costumer\u2019s experience. Companies are realising that their success is strictly linked to the <strong>employees\u2019 success<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><u>References: <\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">What Exactly Is The Employee Experience?, February 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbescoachescouncil\/2019\/02\/01\/what-exactly-is-the-employee-experience\/#2f45ed544dbf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The Employee Experience: It\u2019s Trickier (and more important) Than You Thought, March 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/joshbersin.com\/2019\/03\/the-employee-experience-its-trickier-and-more-important-than-you-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JOSH BERSIN<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Why the Millions We Spend on Employee Engagement Buy Us So Little, March 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/03\/why-the-millions-we-spend-on-employee-engagement-buy-us-so-little.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard Business Review<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/1822507\/2016-WPR\/Americas\/Final_Digital_PDF.pdf?__hssc=130454992.3.1568725304565&amp;__hstc=130454992.4aee01fa4b9041849d1eb32338d4e911.1568705878951.1568721325219.1568725304565.3&amp;__hsfp=1847022623&amp;hsCtaTracking=c4b0755d-28b3-4695-905f-6441f786fc3b%7Cc9446cc4-9e70-44d2-9a1e-cd960a9fae7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engagement and the Global Workplace<\/a>, 2016<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Growing Workplace Results Through Employee Experience, September 2018,<a href=\"https:\/\/engage.kununu.com\/en\/blog\/improving-employee-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Kununu Engage<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}