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It’s Time to Celebrate What Your Company Is Doing Well
When you’re operating a business, it can become all too easy to look for ways to improve and fix what’s broken. But are you taking time to celebrate the things your company is doing right? There are benefits of looking for the positives — and you can often spot them in the feedback your drivers are providing! Where should you be looking to uncover this good news? And what should you do with the info once you find it? We’re filling you in below. Seeking Positive Feedback It’s an absolute truth…
Wrapping Up 2022 & Looking Ahead to 2023
2022 saw a continuation of some workforce trends we saw take hold in late 2020 and throughout 2021. That’s true not only in trucking, but across the board in most other industries as well. In trucking, over the course of the year, companies were full speed ahead, taking advantage of the freight market that we’ve had. With talks of economic shifts, companies are becoming more thoughtful about how they go forward into 2023. One of the muscle memories that a lot of companies have gotten better at…
WorkHound Makes 2022 Inc. 5000!
We are very happy to announce that WorkHound landed in the top half of the 2022 Inc. 5000 list. Here’s what our CEO, Max Farrell, had to say about the distinction: “Throughout the past couple of tumultuous years, we’ve done everything we can at WorkHound to be the best partner possible to our clients, helping them glean valuable workforce feedback so they can leverage those insights into business wins. For those efforts, we’ve grown the size of our client roster substantially while also growing…
WorkHound Secures $12 Million Series A Fundraise from Level Equity
The Series A round, funded by Level Equity, will enable WorkHound to grow its employee roster and introduce its real-time worker feedback platform to more supply chain markets. Today we are excited to announce that WorkHound, a leader in the employee feedback management space, has successfully completed a $12 million Series A fundraising round. The capital, funded wholly by Level Equity, a New York-based growth equity firm, will be used by WorkHound to continue to serve employees of the supply…
Sharing the Love With Your Team of Drivers
When you think about Valentine’s Day, love and spending time with those you love probably comes to mind. But what about sharing the love with your company’s professional drivers? It’s not the same kind of love, and we get that, but showing your drivers that they’re appreciated is a significant part of any effective retention strategy. While a strong pay structure and competitive benefits can help entice drivers to your carrier in the first place, in the long run, drivers are looking to feel…
Product Feature Announcement: Custom Themes
We know that feedback for your company is unique from every other company. There is no "silver bullet" to retention or culture, and while the standard WorkHound themes have covered a great deal of the success you've achieved, there's always an opportunity to go deeper with your data. Today's product update will help you do just that. After diving deep into providing your best user experience and needs (We are a feedback company after all!), WorkHound is excited to announce the launch of custom…
Wrapping Up 2021 & Looking Ahead to 2022
Max Farrell, Co-Founder and CEO A lot of the same challenges from 2020 continued in 2021 for the world. We’re still in a pandemic. The supply chain has more friction points than any of us can remember in recent history. But the world is still moving forward — the economy is moving fast and people expect goods right away. All of these things happening at once make for some challenging times. In trucking, the most common conversations are simply about the workforce. This is the hardest hiring…
Is Driver Loyalty a Thing of the Past?
The short answer is no. But that comes with a caveat — driver loyalty has to be earned. The trend away from loyalty is certainly not a phenomenon seen solely in the trucking industry. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting effects on the workforce brought to light widespread employee dissatisfaction. The result? A mass exodus of people leaving their jobs for greener pastures, coined as the Great Resignation in some cases and the Great Reshuffle in others. Why are employees suddenly “disloyal” and…
Do Drivers Really Want to Use WorkHound?
When you’re considering a feedback program like WorkHound, it’s only natural to wonder whether it’s a tool that your drivers will actually want to use. After all, that’s a key part of making buying decisions about services and programs for your business. You need to know the value of the product. This is a question we come across frequently — and it’s also one we can answer definitively. The answer is YES! Drivers who have access to WorkHound use it, and drivers within the industry who know…
How the Driver Shortage Affects Consumers & How Companies Can Limit the Impact
If you’ve turned on the news recently or picked up a newspaper, you’ve probably heard about the shortage of truck drivers. Why is it big news these days? Well, most specifically, you probably heard about the truck driver shortage in conjunction with the recent ransomware attack on and shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline. Most of us only had a peripheral knowledge of this pipeline prior to the shutdown, but it’s responsible for carrying 100 million gallons of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel per day…