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If you’re planning to reopen your workplace, consider getting information from your workers on crucial topics — such as their personal needs and understanding of safety protocols.
Use a return-to-work survey to understand how your employees feel and help you create a timeline that accommodates everyone.
Figuring out when, how, and why to ask your employees to return to work is a complicated topic.
From safety procedures to whether or not your employees are even able to return as they once were in the first place (think anyone who now has long-term care duties as a result of a family member’s bout with COVID-19 (opens in new tab)), there’s a lot to consider.
As you begin to plan and plot what this important transition will look like and how it will work, one of the best things you can do in creating that plan is conduct your own return-to-work (opens in new tab) employee survey.
Not entirely sold on the idea, especially when time and resources are stretched thin the way it is? Here are a few compelling reasons to consider.
Not everyone has the same demands in their personal lives that they did before the pandemic and ensuing economic crisis began.
If your business has been completely closed, some employees may very well have gotten a second job (opens in new tab) that they’re now obligated to do in some way (and who can blame them — bills have to get paid). Or, someone in their life could still be dealing with complications from a bout with COVID-19. Thus, caregiving may be a role they now have to factor into their lives.
Regardless of what the reason is, you can use an employee survey to gauge the ability of your workforce to return to work in the first place. Once you have that information, you can figure out if you need to:
Promote employees to fill new voids
Hire new people
Bring on temporary workers to fill the gap
Read the rest of the article for more reasons to consider your own return-to-work employee survey on Zenefits.com (opens in new tab).
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