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Workplace Culture

Your workplace culture is constantly changing. The Emtrain blog is dedicated to bringing human resources professionals, compliance officers, and other culture leaders new ideas and resources they can use to cultivate a conscious workplace. From evolving your code of conduct into a culture code to giving your employees the language and workplace skills they need to be a positive part of a respectful workplace culture, we’ve got you covered.

Introduction to Office Ergonomics: Enhancing Workplace Comfort and Productivity

The term “office ergonomics” is thrown around so much that it’s easy to dismiss it as a marketing pitch or an excuse to charge more for high-end design.  But it’s...

Introduction to Employer's Safety Programs: Creating a Culture of Safety

Employer's safety programs are the cornerstones fostering cultures of safety within organizations – and preventing workplace accidents, injuries, and illnesses. These programs cover an array of strategies, policies, and safety...

Identifying and Preventing Common Safety Issues in the Workplace

Every day, employees face common safety hazards at work that can endanger their well-being and compromise productivity.  Understanding common workplace hazards, analyzing common safety issues, implementing basic principles of workplace...

Understanding the Basics of Workplace Safety

Many federal and state laws and regulations require employers to protect workers, provide workplace safety training and ensure employee well-being. In fact, these employer safety programs often encompass many aspects...

Changing Workforce Dynamics: 5 Predictions for 2024

Four years ago, in January 2020, we predicted a resurgence in labor mobilization (unions), xenophobia as our racial and ethnic demographics changed and a prioritization of the employee experience as...

A Personal Note On the Stop the Hate: Lead with Empathy Microlesson and Resource

The current conflict in the Middle East is heartbreaking and generating passionate proclamations and protests. It’s also creating a dehumanizing tribalism that is scary for the affected communities - Arabs,...

Workplace Culture Takes a Hit in 2023

It’s no secret that September 2022 to September 2023 has been rough. Massive layoffs in all industries. Shrinking budgets and scrutiny on any and all budget requests to support a...

Do More than Combat Survey Fatigue with Employee Pulse Surveys

Understanding employee perception and experience is fundamental to improving and maintaining a strong and positive workplace culture. Surveys have to deliver value to both the organization and the employee -...

Developing Modern Workplace Culture Skills

What, exactly, is workplace culture? People seem to use culture to describe a whole host of things – from the company mission to leadership style to fun co-workers to flexibility...

Emtrain's 2022 Year in Review

2022 has been a year of change for many companies. As the world has been rocked by upheaval, companies have had to adapt, finding new ways to work in a...

Pivot: The Musical Chairs Game of Remote, Hybrid, and In-Office Workforces

We are approaching three years since we collectively took a left turn into the remote workforce.  The landscape of the workforce has changed dramatically with the Great Resignation, and now...

Are Your Values Intact? Emtrain Analytics Can Help

Emtrain Analytics can help you measure, monitor and strengthen your organization’s values. Leadership, Diversity, Accountability, Celebrate success, Innovation, Passion, Integrity, Respect, Customer-Focus, Teamwork Has your organization stated its values?  The...

How Toxic Workplaces Harm Employee Health

Anyone who’s ever worked in a toxic workplace knows the toll it can take on you: the loss of sleep, the stress gnawing a pit in your stomach, the constant...

Expand Your Team to Expand Your Impact using Emtrain Analytics

Whose job is workplace culture? Is it yours?  In some organizations, culture is in the title or job description of a few people. Maybe it’s in yours. But there may...

Make Educated Decisions in your Organization with Emtrain Analytics

Everybody has an opinion about what the workforce thinks. Be the person with the facts. You know what they say about opinions. Everyone has one. When trying to drive change...

How To Create a Conscious Culture Beyond Your Organization and Throughout an Entire Ecosystem

The business has always tried to make the world better in one way or another. In recent years, there has been a focus by many companies to not just try,...

Be a Game Changer! Use Data and Insights to Drive Positive Change in your Organization

Every group, team, community, and organization has a culture - the written and (mostly) unwritten rules and norms that govern the way people interact, communicate and resolve conflict. Culture is...

New Pro-Social Work Skills Framework

Create Respect, Inclusion, Belonging, and Ethics in the Workplace Emtrain is excited to announce a new skill-building framework to aid organizations in managing workplace culture and increasing employee productivity. With...

Grief in the Workplace: 4 Ways to Help a Grieving Employee

It’s more than likely that one of your employees will experience a loss at some point. Death, illness, and grief are all natural, unavoidable parts of life. Dealing with grief...

Why Emtrain Benchmarks Across Industries

...and Why It Matters Organizations are more than the sum of their individual parts. We understand that. That’s why Emtrain’s Solution empowers its users to measure and compare social capital...

Change Management: How to Enact Internal Change

Change can be very difficult and is something that many people resist, especially when it’s something that has stayed the same for years. However, many areas within an organization need...
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