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Employee wellbeing is a key factor for employee attraction and retention
Workplace wellbeing has risen to the top of the agenda for companies and is now frequently a core component of business strategies. This is reflective of an increased focus by businesses on their workplace culture and ensuring it is conducive to staff attraction and retention. Catalysed by COVID disruptions, recognition of the importance of wellbeing...
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Investing in the next generation of fintech leaders
More than two dozen students will benefit from a best-in-class introduction to the emerging world of payments through a new intern and graduate programme starting this summer. The first intake, of 20 undergraduates, will spend three months working alongside a range of Elavon teams in Dublin, Arklow, Warsaw and London. From September, as the interns...
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The great resignation or the great return?
New staff at any company will give an insight to its real culture. However, it’s all the more compelling to hear it from those who left a place… and then came back. Two, among many, so-called ‘boomerang employees’ are Julie Kehoe and Tracy Rowan. Tracy worked at Elavon Europe for 16 years before leaving to...
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Employee experiences are now as important as the customers’
Two years of pandemic working practices has businesses reflecting on what their customers and employees want, to become workforces of the future. “What is the future of work? That’s a lot to unpack!” laughs Niamh O’Neill, interim Chief of Staff for Elavon Europe. “But I can tell you what we’ve learned and what that means...
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Drawing lessons from the pandemic for a flexible workforce
The last couple of years have afforded many workplaces the opportunity to test their culture in a new and exciting setting. Is it possible for workplace cultures to flourish within this remote working litmus test? When organisations operated with positive intent in the early stages of COVID-19, they got a trust bounce from their people....
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It is important to measure progress and improvements
The old adage of what you measure matters is applicable to all areas of business, you can’t manage what you can’t measure, diversity and inclusion is no different. Measuring and setting targets is a key action in successfully building more diverse and inclusive organisations. Business in the Community Ireland, leading advisers on sustainability, recently launched...
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Why the best company cultures need structure to last
Cultures that last in the long-term are those that are created and embodied by employees at every level. Culture is the common set of values, beliefs and behaviours that bind us together as an organisation. A strong organisational culture provides employees with common purpose. Operating hand in hand with employee engagement, an engaged workforce living...
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Changing the way we think about the future of work
At global, national and sectoral level, we are living through a tsunami of changes, significantly impacting our lives and our workplaces. For employees and employers, influences such as digitalisation, COVID-19, global warming, war and inflation are already delivering changing priorities, different values and diverse ways of working. Building for the future means laying the right...
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Strategic talent development is a growing imperative for business
Attracting and retaining talent as well as building agile and resilient organisations are key challenges faced by businesses today. Enterprise’s capacity for long-term sustainable growth will be greatly enhanced by developing the mindset and capabilities to address key working challenges on an on-going basis. Working with our client companies, we have identified leadership and strategic...
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Digital transformation is helping provide flexibility for employees
New digital solutions are helping to advance businesses’ core goals and deliver true flexibility for employees as we embrace the future of work. New digital business software solutions are allowing businesses to focus on their core goals and provide employees with a better work-life balance. With new technology for tackling administrative demands becoming more understood...