We were happy to help out CBSNews.com at the beginning of the holiday season with ways to help keep employees focused during what can be a difficult -- as well as rewarding -- time at work.
And if you're helping manage a place that needs to keep operating right on through from now into the New Year, then these ideas can be doubly helpful.
Here are some of the suggestions we shared with CBS News for helping workers to feel engaged during the holidays:
Give them a temporary flexible schedule. We told CBS that if people are worried about making flights or being home for deliveries, it can distract them from work. So try to work around that reality of the holidays if you can.
Plan some corporate holiday cheer. Company Christmas parties are all wrapped up, but what about some kind of social occasion recognizing those who must work during the week between Christmas and New Year? Even the smallest gesture will be appreciated.
Give back to others. There's never only a season for doing this, but the winter holidays in American culture can punctuate the need.
It might even be a good idea to organize some kind of company-level effort that would be executed during the last week of the year, because there's always so much do-gooding right up until Christmas -- and then it sort of drops off a cliff (no fiscal pun intended).
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