In the lead up to Christmas, this is generally a time when most organisations will be at their busiest, as there is likely to be extra demand for products and services. For others they may experience a quiet period or shut down during the Christmas holidays. This is also a time when a number of employees will request time off. It’s also a period when some types of organisation might need extra support and will take on casual workers.

Are you unintentionally harassing them by trying to find out where they are? Are you concerned that something might have happened to them? There's a fine line between being a responsible employer, coming across as overbearing and not wanting to compromise the working relationship with your employee.

As every employee is an individual with their own motivations and reasons to come to work it’s a given that money, whilst important isn’t the prime reason people come to work. As employers we’d like to think that people actually enjoy being at work and some even measure employee satisfaction, regularly and take notice of the research.