How to Motivate Your Employees

Has your office gone through a bit of a slump lately? Maybe you’re finding the staff are working slower, or there are more gripes than usual about the commute. Sure, it could just be seasonal, and might pick up with time, but when you could do something about it, why take that chance?

Small moments of demotivation can turn into lasting problems in the long run. Soon you might notice a lot of clicking out of job websites, or the only reason for people leaving your company being that nothing was keeping them there.

You might need to make moves now to make sure that your employees stick around. As much as free donuts might feel good in the moment, it’s not the lack of a free donut in the morning that drives an employee to look for another job. Take a look at our ideas to re-motivate your staff members and see where you can improve.

Benefits

Benefits are a great way to motivate your current employees, as well as enticing potential new staff members into a role. They can be anything from a company car or mileage coverage to gym memberships or dental.

Some of them people have to rely on. Dental, for example, can be very pricey, and if you don’t allow remote working or hybrid working, it might be seen as only fair that mileage is covered considering the cost of living right now.

But benefits can also be tailored to the employee. If you have the Zest Benefits app, for example, you can manage everyone’s benefits from the one platform, removing the gym membership for the employee that prefers hiking or adding the childcare vouchers for the employee that just got back from maternity leave. Check out the Zest Benefits website for all the details on their app.

Your employees will have something to work for besides a salary every month, knowing full well that every job supplies a salary (or it should, anyway) but not every job supply benefits. It’s like an ongoing reward that will motivate ongoing good work in your company.

Bonuses

Along the same vein, bonuses are also a big motivator. There are always new projects coming up in any business, and as good and vital as a “Thanks for the work, well done” can be, actions speak louder than words. A bonus is a great way to thank your team for the good work they put in this time and motivate them to do an even better job next time.

With the Zest Benefits app, you can even distribute bonuses as you see fit from a platform in your smartphone or laptop. Your employee with their own app in their phone will get a notification telling them of their new boost and you can even congratulate them via the app’s chatroom.

Competitive salaries

If you are looking to onboard some new recruits, it’s important that you have competitive salaries to entice them. Not only will this make your job worth it to the employee, giving them ongoing motivation, but they will be likely to stay in the position. You will put off any ideas of finding something better or thoughts of “What am I doing this for?” if your staff’s salary is competitive for the duration of their stay.

In a time when cost of living is rising, the housing market is an ongoing joke, and worldwide events are tanking the economy, your employees will need a very good reason to get out of bed in the morning. A competitive salary will ensure that they get out of bed and into your office rather than looking elsewhere.