Wanganui Rivercity Press Article
Christine Savage is a Senior Accounting Technician within our business advisory team.
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What is your business’s most valuable asset? It’s the staff.
Taking a key staff member out of your business can make life difficult and so can a staff member who is unmotivated or distracted.
Getting the best from your employees sometimes needs a bit of creative thinking.
So how can your business get the wellness tick?
Employees want to work in a supportive environment where they feel they make a difference. Also in these modern days a balanced work / private life is very important.
What are some of the options your business can offer staff to get the right balance?
It could be job-sharing, flexi-hours or working from home. In each situation rules must be in place so that arrangements are not abused and you as the employer are still getting the required results from each employee and the employee feels they are benefitting also.
One example is job-sharing, this is when two employees share the fulltime hours. An employee with a young family maybe only be able to work part time but could share the position with another employee with similar circumstances. Don’t go into this arrangement without establishing how it will work. Treat the sharing team as a single employee, that way each partner is accountable for the partnership. Develop good communications and define the roles.
Whatever arrangement(s) work best for your business ensure that staff are contactable during set hours / days and that your customers are aware of the agreed arrangements.
Published - 15 November 2011
