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Hiring Guide Series Guide 5: Sustain Workforce With Activities

A good company culture that lives up to its company standards toward its employees helps sustain company workforce. Needless to say, as a recruiting officer, it is your main goal to satisfy his needs as an employee. And there are various ways to retain an employee. Involve him to internal and external events that will boost employee morale, teamwork, and company-employee relationships.

Activities inside the company:

1. Reward your team. Have small team lunch or dinners in the office
2. Engage your employees to join open-forums, brainstorming sessions, and company talks to discuss news and updates, or issues.
3. Play a “treasure hunt” game. The winning pair or team will receive good prizes.
4. Encourage everyone in the office to join profit-sharing activities, but never impose it as a “compulsory.”
5. Make your department an open door. As the human resource officer, your job also entails to guide your employees and provide counselling sessions. Encourage everyone to talk to you about work problems, or personal problems that affects working relationships and work as a job.

Activities outside the company:

1. Join a sports league in your community. Start up company-sponsored basketball, volleyball, or golfing leagues in which any employee can join and play for free.
2. Team gathering for charity. You may ask the support of non-profit organizations in your community on how your company can be of help to their vision activities.
3. Let your employees attend seminars, symposiums or conferences outside of your company. This way, they will experience meeting other people in the industry.
4. Reward your team. Have small team dinners outside the office.
5. Company Outings. Go to private resorts or beaches every summer.