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Experience: a working group dedicated to supporting values-based corporate culture
Company culture Experience: a working group dedicated to supporting values-based corporate culture
Where to start if your company doesn’t have a human resources director and HR policy, and on top of it, has a negative employer net promoter score? Grant Thornton Baltic’s HR director Marge Litvinova and recruiter Kätlin Treima share some valuable experience.
7 min read | 03 May 2024
A compassionate employer also looks after employees’ mental health
Company culture A compassionate employer also looks after employees’ mental health
All of us have a work life and a private life, and no matter how we try, it is hard to keep them completely separate. Problems at work come home with us and vice versa. That is the underpinning for my belief that an employer who genuinely cares about its people will see investing into maintaining mental health as an investment in its employees.
Marge Litvinova
Marge Litvinova
| 5 min read | 08 Apr 2024
Kasvukursil töölepingu lõpetamine
Labor law Yes, employment contracts can be terminated extraordinarily via Messenger
The most important aspect of extraordinary cancellation of an employment contract is that the notice has to be reproducible in writing. The employee should thus be precise in their wording, and the employer should be quick to respond.
Marge Litvinova
Merli Kesküla
| 6 min read | 28 Mar 2024
Sink or swim: well-organized HR work also gives a smaller company a competitive advantage.
HR management Sink or swim: well-organized HR work also gives a smaller company a competitive advantage.
Employees are the greatest asset of any company, upon which competitive advantage is built - but they are also one of the largest cost factors. Every business leader should think about on whether we are doing all we can, to preserve this investment and whether we are making the most of our employees' potential.
6 min read | 13 Jan 2023
How The Manager Can Support Recruitment Processes
HR and recruitment services How The Manager Can Support Recruitment Processes
Grant Thornton Baltic's HR Advisory Manager Airi Neemre highlighted 10 topics that influence recruitment with the goal to provide best practice recommendations about how managers can help make the recruitment process more productive, successful and efficient.
7 min read | 05 Jan 2023
Grant Thornton Baltic saade Kasvukursil Äripäeva raadios
HR and recruitment services The formula for successful recruitment: salary alone isn’t tempting enough
Although salary isn’t unimportant if you want to attract talent, you need to offer opportunities for growth and think through the details of the recruitment process, using the services of an external expert if need be.
Kätlin Treima
Kätlin Treima
| 5 min read | 21 Dec 2022
Recruitment as a company’s calling card
HR Advisory Services Recruitment as a company’s calling card
If a company lacks its own HR manager or recruitment specialist, now is not the best time to look for one, because a recruiter is one of the most sought-after and thus most heavily advertised positions on the job market.
5 min read | 11 Nov 2022
Inclusively leading through change
Leadership Inclusively leading through change
In the post-pandemic landscape, a new model of leadership will be needed to enable organisations to thrive. Engendering innovation, collaborating and communicating across the business, and adapting to change have become operational necessities, while empathy and inclusion are the keys to team performance.
3 min read | 04 Jul 2021
3 suggestions on how to return to normal working life
Human resource mnagement 3 suggestions on how to return to normal working life
It has been a year and a few months since the coronavirus turned a new page in world history and exploded all comfort zones. Since that time, Estonia has beaten back two waves of the virus, and like last spring, we are now facing a calmer period. But this brings up new questions – how to return little by little to ordinary working life and juggle the needs of companies and employees while taking into account the way work will be organized in future.
Marge Litvinova
Marge Litvinova
| 7 min read | 10 Jun 2021
Marge Litvinova | 5 questions for the Head of People & Culture
Human resource management Marge Litvinova | 5 questions for the Head of People & Culture
To give people freedom and responsibility in their work, these values must be a part of organisational culture. The precondition is a working environment where failures and mistakes are allowed and instead of routine feedback there is also feedthrough, says Grant Thornton Baltic’s Head of People & Culture, Marge Litvinova, who shares her experiences and knowledge in more detail.
12 Jan 2021
A five-year leap in two months: remote work as a new norm
Remote work A five-year leap in two months: remote work as a new norm
Remote work due to the coronavirus in companies is becoming a new positive trend, which is difficult to reverse, but both companies and employees will benefit from adapting to it, according to Äripäev’s radio program “Kasvukursil”. Grant Thornton Baltic's HR manager Marge Litvinova, IT-manager Arko Kurg and Partner of digital services Vladimir Rüntü discuss the plusses and minuses and possibilites and threats of working in different places such as the office, home offive or office abroad.
07 Jul 2020
Who ensures that remote workers have a healthy working environment?
Labor law Who ensures that remote workers have a healthy working environment?
During the emergency situation in Estonia, many employers have allowed some or all their employees to work from home. Allowing people to work from home cuts the risk of contracting the virus, but also raises the question of who is responsible for providing a safe and healthy work environment for the employee. Kärolin Rohumäe, Grant Thornton Baltic's legal adviser, explains in more detail.
29 Mar 2020
Grant Thornton Baltic saade Kasvukursil Äripäeva raadios
People and culture The workforce crisis not relenting: now is the time to recruit for tomorrow
Finding competent top-level specialists is getting harder, forcing companies to adapt on the employee-centred labour market and recruit already today for tomorrow, stated the Äripäev (daily business newspaper) produced radio programme “Kasvukursil”.
17 Feb 2020
A pay raise for employees returning from childcare leave?
Labor law A pay raise for employees returning from childcare leave?
When it is time for the parent to return to work after childcare leave, they are entitled under the Employment Contracts Act to improved work conditions, including a pay raise, if conditions and salary level have improved for other employees in the meantime. Is the returning employee on par with others?
Kristel Tiits
Kristel Tiits
| 03 Feb 2020