New Year Resolution For HRs in 2023

The workplace landscape has changed significantly since the pandemic hit. While the after-effects have subsided, there is a change in the expectation of workers. Employees now want better work-life balance, flexibility, and conducive company policies. As a result, HR managers must create a creative New Year resolution to accommodate such requirements.

In this article, we explore some key themes HRs must keep in mind when creating New Year’s resolutions for them.

6 HR New Year’s resolutions

1. Prevent employee burnout

Devise a plan to prevent employee burnout. It is becoming increasingly important that companies’ attendance policies allow workers to maintain a healthy work and life balance. If your company can enable workers to have a hybrid work model, it can bring much-needed flexibility.

A recent study found that companies that allow workers to work remotely have a 25%?lower employee turnover rate?than companies that don’t. Suppose you are in an industry such as construction, manufacturing, and automobile where the workforce cannot work remotely. In that case, you can plan?rotating shifts?to ensure workers are getting enough rest.

2. Increasing employee engagement

With silent resignation becoming a common phenomenon in companies, HR’s New Year’s resolution must include increasing employee engagement. Silent resignation is when workers stop putting in effort or willingly refuse to cooperate with the management.

There can be several reasons, but often poor employee engagement causes the issue. As part of your New Year’s resolution, you can introduce an employee recognition program that helps workers to feel more connected and appreciated.

It is essential that your workers feel valued and are aware of the contributions they make to the organization. It is necessary to avoid their identity crisis and keep them engaged.

3. Helping remote employees feel more connected

Due to the pandemic, many companies started supporting remote work. By 2022, many remote employees started reporting adverse effects on their productivity and mental well-being because they felt disconnected.

While work from the home environment has its perks, the isolation can result in workers feeling left out. One way HR managers can help remote employees feel more connected is by providing more opportunities for fun.

We are not referring to virtual happy hours but thoughtful and meaningful team-building activities such as casual meetings, constructive debates, and more. A recognition program can help with working teams feeling disconnected.

4. Give employees feedback regularly

This year make it a point to provide employees feedback regularly. It is essential to eradicate any confusion and lower anxiety among workers. When the management is not transparent about their performance, employees assume the worst, which can severely demotivate them and lower their productivity.

Providing regular performance feedback helps workers evaluate their output, and they can proactively take measures to correct their behavior.

5. Training employees who are not performing well

Often all it takes to bring employees back on track if they are lacking in productivity and performance is to provide opportunities for training. HR’s New Year resolutions should include a plan for training employees who are not performing well.

It is found that companies with employee training programs are twice as likely to retain workers compared to companies that do not invest in workers’ upskilling programs.

6. Promote a healthy work/life balance

The growth of companies often requires workers to work harder to support the increasing demand. However, productivity and revenue should come at a cost other than your workers’ work/life balance. HR managers are responsible for ensuring that workers are not exhausted physically or mentally and show compassion towards their challenges.

Make it your New Year’s resolution to promote a healthy work/life balance in your organization through policy change initiatives. Include workers during policy drafting to allow them a say in policies that will affect their life at work.

There are?two more new year's resolutions that you can find in the original article published on?Truein.com.