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Is the abundance of apps in the ecosystem killing productivity?

Employee experience is a means to an end, not an end in itself. 
 For all the time and attention and money we spend improving every part of the employee journey, from candidate to alumni and everything in between it must never be lost that the reason employee experience is important is that it drives customer experience.

David Bator
By David Bator
on February 3, 2020
   
Is the abundance of apps in the ecosystem killing productivity?

Employee experience is a means to an end, not an end in itself. 
 For all the time and attention and money we spend improving every part of the employee journey, from candidate to alumni...

David Bator
By David Bator
on February 3, 2020
Importance of content targeting in the employee experience

Doesn't it feel great when an experience has been curated just for us, reflecting OUR tastes, interests and needs?

Bonzai Intranet points to Content Targeting as one of "7 Must-Have...

David Bator
By David Bator
on January 27, 2020
Is it possible to maintain company culture through a merger?

If you've ever been through a merger you know that it's lip service to say that the integration will be a "merger of equals."

David Bator
By David Bator
on January 13, 2020
Give your employees a reason to keep coming back

It's only half true that "if you build it, they will come." When it comes to the digital workplace, we need to give employees reasons to keep coming back.

In a new article for CMSWire, Asif...

David Bator
By David Bator
on January 6, 2020
Am I OK?

In a new article for Harvard Business Review, author Mike Robbins describes the distinction between RECOGNITION and APPRECIATION.

"In simple terms, recognition is about what people do,"...

David Bator
By David Bator
on November 18, 2019
Availability.

For all the "A" words that are woven into A+ employee experience - Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere, Any Language, etc - AVAILABILITY deserves to be at the top.

Engagement surveys ask staff:

David Bator
By David Bator
on October 21, 2019
Money isn't the only, or even the top, form of recognition

I spoke with a Director of HR yesterday who was struggling to ride the wave of an enormous exit of talent.

As they dug into their engagement and exit surveys, employee recognition rose to...

David Bator
By David Bator
on October 14, 2019
Remotely Engaged

It used to be that you had to be global to be disconnected. But the changing nature of how work gets done - remote work, desk-less workers, satellite offices, etc - has fundamentally...

David Bator
By David Bator
on October 10, 2019
There's Gold in Them Hills

James Robertson shares a must read on the temptation among communicators to abandon the rust of their intranets for the promise of social and collaboration tools promised in abundance "out...

David Bator
By David Bator
on September 6, 2019
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