Inspirus Blog
Welcome to our space where we celebrate the power of rewards, recognition, and robust employee engagement. Dive in to discover transformative solutions that elevate workplace culture, boost morale, and drive unparalleled performance. Let's embark on a journey to appreciate, motivate, and empower your most valuable asset: your people.

Culture
By Theresa Harkins-Schulz
Building a workplace community that is supportive and social has the potential for positive impact on both company morale and productivity. Both employees and the organizations they work for benefit.

Culture
By Aspen Christopher
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an important commemorative event that could, sadly, go on year-round. It’s a movement to raise awareness about mental health — something that both employers and employees are, unfortunately, well aware of these days.

Culture
By Mia Mends
With the recent release of Sodexo's 2017 Global Workplace Trends Report comes a compendium of rich content from one of the world’s largest employers along with global news sources and nearly 50 subject matter experts from renowned academic institutions, associations, consultancies, foundations, NGOs, research groups, think tanks and more.

Employee Engagement
By Kelley Briggs
In the past two years, HR leaders have seen talent recruitment and management turned upside down and inside out. The ‘Great Resignation,” hybrid work arrangements, and “quiet quitting” have impacted how HR leaders do their jobs, how employees respond to the “new normal” in their workplace, and what role organizations play in satisfying employees’ personal goals. One thing we have learned is when organizational leaders make an investment in the long-term success of their employees (a proactive mindset) rather than simply getting bodies back into seats (a reactive response), employees are happier and more motivated to perform at their highest levels.

Culture
By Kelley Briggs
When G W Haltom opened Haltom’s industries in 1893, the company was known as a jewelry manufacturer that made belt buckles, lapel pins, rings, and watches — including some used to mark employees' service anniversaries or reward them for their hard work. Fast forward 130 years and it is unlikely he could have known how impactful his vision was, as Inspirus has now become a leader in employee recognition and employee engagement services. Let’s take a trip down memory lane.

Employee Engagement
By Kelley Briggs
When the term “quiet quitting” emerged in March of 2022, it painted a picture of lazy, entitled employees — or at least those with unrealistic expectations about their work.

Employee Engagement
By Kelley Briggs
The now popular term “employee engagement” was originally coined by Professor William Kahn with Boston University in 1990 in his paper, “Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work.”

Employee Feedback
For many organizations — especially service organizations — employees are their primary resource. In any company environment, though, employees are a critical driver of organizational success. Their feedback is critical to improving the employee experience, company culture, and business operations.

Employee Feedback
By Theresa Harkins-Schulz
The pandemic and mass exodus of the Great Resignation gave organizational leaders a wake-up call: work culture needs to improve. Your organization already has a culture and you might think you know what it is — but your employees can tell you the real, whole story about the culture you actually have. And chances are, your culture could stand some improvement, even if you think your employees are happy.

Employee Feedback
We have created a diagnostic employee feedback survey tool through its employee engagement platform, Connects. A collaboration between Inspirus and human insight partner, The Happiness Index, now gives organizations a single solution that measures employee sentiment and delivers insights that can improve employee engagement strategies, elevate company culture, and drive business success.

Culture
By Paula Ambrozic
Anyone who’s ever had a job knows how important the relationships between people at work can be. From the caring boss to the helpful coworker, positive relationships can improve our day-to-day experiences, improve employee engagement, and even boost retention. And on the flip side, negative employee relationships (or even those that just aren’t positive enough) can have a dramatic impact on how we feel about our jobs.

Employee Engagement
By Kelly Briggs
Trust is the foundation on which successful teams and positive team culture is built. But recent world events like the pandemic has had a massive negative impact on trust in institutions around the world, according to global PR firm, Edelman, which conducts an annual “trust barometer” to monitor trust across four institutions — business, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and media.

Employee Engagement
By Kelley Briggs
In 2022, three distinct employment trends made headlines, gaining attention quickly and prompting various levels of panic for organizational leaders: quiet quitting, quiet firing, and quiet hiring. None of these so-called quiet trends are actually new behaviors in the workplace.

Culture
By Michelle C. Haas
IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are among some of the big companies that have recently announced massive layoffs. This is an era that has been characterized by the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, and widespread concerns among managers of all kinds about keeping employees engaged and on board during their entire employee journey.