Virtual Meet | Employee Engagement and the new Employee Experience

On Tuesday 27th April, Ceridian and HR Grapevine hosted a joint virtual meetup called Employee Engagement and the new Employee Experience in order to discuss how challenges catalysed by the pandemic were forcing organisations to reimagine their engagement tack and how they structured the employee experience.

Chaired by Daniel Cave, Head of Content at HR Grapevine, alongside Wendy Muirhead, Vice President at Ceridian and Bob Rehill, Founder & CEO at Bob Rehill Associate Network, the session kicked off by quizzing the HR leaders in attendance about where their biggest pandemic-sparked, or roadmap-back-to-a-future normal, engagement issue was.

Many were in agreement that within figuring out how to ensure that the future of work – whether it was more likely to be perma remote, hybrid or back-to-office – was engaging and operationally sound, HR also needed to ensure that the meta aspects of work (socialising, culture, connection) were front and centre of thinking.

As expected, there were a wide range of thoughts on how to do this – ranging from transforming legacy office space into a destination for collaborative work to setting up work calls that weren’t based around transactions – however most seemed to agree that technology had a central role to play in this, even if work did eventually move back to a central space.