Employee Engagement and Experience for Construction and Real Estate
Communication, recognition and the conditions people actually work in.
What this looks like in construction and real estate
The parts of employee engagement and experience that are specific to this sector, rather than general.
Engagement on Site
Engagement for people who change site every few months.
What this coversHide
Engagement on Site
Engagement for people who change site every few months.
What this coversHideA site workforce judges an employer on conditions and predictability rather than on programmes. Most of what matters is decided by the site in-charge, not by head office.
- Site in-charge capability and conduct
- Wage and advance payment reliability
- Accommodation, drinking water, sanitation and canteen standards
- Safety equipment issued without being asked
- Transport between accommodation and site
- Redeployment visibility - what happens when this phase ends
- Grievance route independent of the site supervisor
- Recognition at crew and trade level
Redeployment visibility is the most underrated. Workers who know there is a next site stay; those who assume the work ends with the phase start looking during it.
The general method — what employee engagement and experience covers, the questions it answers and what an engagement produces — is the same whatever the sector, and is set out on the employee engagement and culture page. What is above is the part that differs for construction and real estate.
Other HR topics for construction and real estate
Where to start
Most engagements begin with a review of how this runs in your business today, then a written process and the sequence to implement it.
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