Mental health in the workplace… how often is that discussed at management meetings? According to this Guardian article, seventy million working days are lost each year due to stress, depression and other mental health conditions in Britain. This costs Britain £70-100bn annually, equivalent to 4.5% of the nation’s GDP. Across the pond, in Canada, in any […]
A fun employee mood survey Is there a fun survey to take to keep a constant pulse on your organization’s mood? Celpax is a device that hangs at the exit door and simply asks all employees: How was your day? Coworkers respond by pressing the green or the red button. It also shows how your team’s […]
Employee Engagement Best Practices One of the things we keep seeing in our data is that when workplaces are going through changes, whether it’s the possibility of an impending merger or moving offices, employee engagement results can get rocky. This was the case for Levi, a user from Potash Corp. The company is currently facing upcoming […]
Should I add admins to my Celpax dashboard? A great workplace is everybody’s job. One of our users discovered this when she took it upon herself to help get more #GreenButtonDays in the office. She realized that improving at work isn’t about one person pulling everyone else along. Or the HR department doing all the work. […]
Social events at work make employees happy – now we do more! As I prepared to write about Quimica Passol where our data had spotted a nice work culture (one of many), I came across a job portal where the Chilean company had just put up a job advert. It surprised me that they labeled their […]
Is added technology the magic solution to get more people engaged at work? I recently had an interesting chat with Mark Frary, a technology writer with eight published books, around this topic. If you picked up The Times in the UK the other day you might have seen Mark’s thoughts in the Employee Engagement and Benefits […]
Some new customers ask us whether the Celpax initiative will die out after a few months. One of our favorite companies is having a special day today as they’re celebrating 1100 days of collecting employee mood. Congrats Zerorez Minnesota! The cycle of Measure, Talk, Improve, Repeat, is what keep things running: That’s 3 years of consistently […]
Locus of control Who is in control of how you feel at work? This was the question posed by Desiree Rosier at Happy People Health Inc as she stood in front of the green and red button at work. Keys in hand and ready to go home for the day: “Locus of control is an important phenomena”, she […]
HR metrics examples: Vistaprint Companies like Vistaprint who believe in employee happiness… …usually make sure that the launch of their HR tools is a success. Hence they dedicate time and effort to make sure all team leaders are onboard. Each workplace is unique which means the “best” way to launch the Celpax in each workplace will […]
