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2021 Human Resources Trends
On Christmas Eve, 2020, the Recognize team published their trends predictions for the HR industry going into 2021. In the article, we look back at our last year’s predictions to see where we fell short or hit the mark. The trends are based on linked research as well as the Recognize’s own experience working with companies in the Americas and abroad.
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How to Engage Frontline Employees
We asked seven business leaders how they were engaging their frontline workers or advising their clients on engaging their diverse workforce. With many workers now at home, it is even harder to get a pulse of the organization and engage in the right way. At Recognize, employee recognition online is only half the battle. To engage frontline workers, Recognize provides a frontline worker package to SMS login, recognize staff, and redeem a reward. Further, printed certificates, physical buttons to press, and TVs of recognitions are all strategies to recognize frontline workers.
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The Comprehensive Guide to Working from Home
Original research from Recognize into working from home and employee engagement, productivity, and happiness. This article is to help team managers, human resources, and individual contributors navigate WFH.
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Emotional Intelligence Interview Questions
No one ever said hiring was easy. Companies continue to grapple with the best approach to hiring. One of the big issues is reliability – that the interview will predict behavior in the job. One way to help with this is asking the right questions that touch on your company values and their emotional intelligence.
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Amazing Award Certificates
In honor of all the great work employees do out there, Recognize is providing 10 free incredible employee award certificate templates for various occasions.
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5 Ways to Use Recognize during COVID-19
Ways your company can use platforms like Recognize to make your employees' lives better during the ongoing pandemic
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Cultivate Positive Remote Work Experience
10 ways your company can cultivate a positive remote work experience so that everybody wins.
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Employee Recognition in Okta
How you can use identity and access management providers like Okta hand in hand with Recognize
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Become a Zoom Power User
A cheat sheet to get the most out of Zoom teleconferencing
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Banking Health Survey
Recognize published the survey results looking at health of workers in the finance industry and employee recognition.
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Utilizing employee recognition & incentives to combat Coronavirus in your company
How we can utilize employee recognition and help ourselves to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
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Combat Burnout in Healthcare
How Recognition and Engagement can combat Burnout in Healthcare
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Human Resource Trends for 2020
See Recognize's predictions for 2020 in HR, while we also look back at 2019 trends.
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Website Design Trends of 2019
Our writings can't always be about HR and employee engagement. Here's a look at the web designs we saved in 2019 that we loved.
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How to Engage your Employees in Office 365
How to leverage your existing Office 365 subscription to engage and retain employees.
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How to run an awesome volunteer program with Recognize Incentives
As the dust settles on new year celebrations, it doesn't take long for good wishes to turn to new year's resolutions. With 2019 undoubtedly wrapping up as a year to put climate change and sustainability on the map and make the world “Greta” again, why not kick off 2020 with the resolve to give back a little?
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Ways to Foster Employee Engagement
10 Great Ways to Foster Authentic Employee Engagement from reducing stress to getting feedback.
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Mental Health Research
A Recognize-funded study into the correlation between low sense of appreciation and issues with mental health.
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Employee Recognition Stats for Healthcare
A look into nurse burn out and the effects of recognition within health industry, such as hospitals or medical technology fields.
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Employee Recognition Report
Research into what employees want in an employee recognition and from their company.
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Human Resource Trends for 2019
Where HR is going in 2019 and a look back at 2018 events. Recognize pretended more technology and a marrying of IT and HR.
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Employee Recognition Trends for 2019
At look back at 2018 and what the road ahead in 2019 for trends in employee recognition.
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Employee Recognition Ideas
An ever growing list of quotes, ideas, book suggestions within over 100 ideas to recognize and reward your employees.
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Employee Recognition App Guide
Learn from the big guys. Recognize took RFPs on employee recognition from Fortune 500 companies and compiled what they care about into this article.
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Habits of Top HR Managers
15 creative ways to be a great human resources professional.
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Company Holiday Party & Year-End Staff Bonus Guide
Learn what staff really want from employee benefits for holiday parties and end of year bonuses.
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Employee Recognition and Health in the Workplace
Employee recognition doesn’t only help promote productivity in the office; it also improves the overall health and well-being of your workers.
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Distributed Workforce Infographic 2013
See the tools and trends of working from home and distributed workforces.
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Employee Appreciation Day: 8 Ideas Your Staff Will Love
Employee Appreciation Day takes place on the first Friday of every March, and was created as a way to show recognition and appreciation for all the hard work employees do throughout the year.
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What Men Can Do To Prevent Workplace Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment has dominated headlines in recent weeks, with the Harvey Weinstein exposé closely followed by revelations about Kevin Spacey and Louis C.K. But workplace sexual harassment isn’t limited to Hollywood.
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Top 10 employee engagement tips on Facebook Workplace
Facebook Workplace is a communication and productivity tool for businesses. It utilizes the great parts of Facebook to help companies work together more effectively. Take a look at the 10 creative ways to engage employees on Facebook Workplace.
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The State of People Analytics Stats
9% of companies use predictive analytics or big data to analyze people trends. See more top stats.
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5 Critical Areas for IT Adoption of Employee Recognition
You’ve decided that your company deserves a modern recognition program. You’ve received buy-in from your executive leadership. The last hurdle to pass is approval from IT.
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16 Must-Answer Employee Engagement Questions for Your Staff
When was the last time you or your HR initiated an employee engagement survey at your company? In Recognize, we provide a way to ask these questions when you start the program and six months later.
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14 Employee Recognition Tips and Trends of 2017
From forward-thinking companies from all over the world, this is what we see as trends, advice, and tips for employee recognition and employee rewards.
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Seven Must-Know Types of Employee Rewards
How do you pick the best types of employee rewards for your company? There are numerous methods of praising staff. Each and every company’s situation is unique, and what might work for one doesn’t necessarily have to work for another. To try and help you determine the best way to motivate your workforce, we have sought to compile some employee rewards for you to consider. Here are seven of them.
