Todd Raphael, Editor-in-Chief, ERE Media

Employer Branding Today is proud to welcome guest writer Todd Raphael, Editor-in-Chief of ERE Media. In his article, Todd explains that despite your written policies, your employees still have another perception or understanding of your workplace. The question is: How can you, as an employer, identify and address all those unwritten policies that create an atmosphere of uncertainty? 

By Todd Raphael, Editor-in-Chief of ERE Media

I was recently on the phone for ERE.net, talking to a company president about our website, conferences, and so on. He said it’d been an emotional day: an employee told him she was pregnant with her third child, and that she was scared.

He told me he wasn’t 100% sure why she was scared, but a small part of it, he thought – written policies or the law aside — was a fear she’d somehow lose her job or wouldn’t be wanted anymore. (“I’ve decided to keep it,” she told him – almost as if she thought he was going to tell her she shouldn’t!) Read the rest of this entry »

One in four people, according to WHO, will be affected by mental or neurological disorders – it’s not a question of if but more when it will happen.

These individuals, already burdened by having to deal with a mental illness, have to confront the stigmatization and discrimination they receive by employers and society as a whole.

Although most people are enthusiastic to work and some find it to be therapeutic, they are put in a forced position of unemployment. Read the rest of this entry »