Firms find ways to help employees through pandemic

Keeping employees engaged and mentally strong at work is a pandemic-era challenge like no other. Strategies, from providing clarity to espousing empathy to toilet roll basketball, are in the offing.

By Mark Gordon
| 1:00 p.m. November 18, 2020
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Sharon Lesko, the human resources director with Senior Friendship Centers,

Strategies

London Bay Homes employees toiling away at their desks Friday afternoons can get downright giddy when they spot CEO and President Mark Wilson. That’s because the soft-spoken, gentlemanly English-born Wilson, right around 5 p.m., is one of several top leaders at the company in charge of a big task: pushing a drink cart up and down the aisles.

The CEO-turned-bartender will pour a glass of wine for one employee, hand another one a beer. Wilson and other cart-pushing executives — wearing face masks — will stop and chat with employees. “It gives us a reason to say hello,” Wilson says, “to say cheers.”

'Happy employees are great, but engaged employees are magical. To me there is no better way to fight COVID-19 fatigue than to inspire a higher level of engagement.’ Ben Jones, Allegiant Private Advisors