Helping employees take root.
Blackbook provides a focused view of what's going on in your town — inviting people to embrace it as their home. On a daily basis they'll see how the city fulfills their interests and needs.
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Diagnose Retention Risk
Blackbook's proprietary online retention risk analysis changes the engagement game. It's a one-of-a-kind diagnostic tool that measures Embeddedness by examining individuals' fit, links, and sacrifice — organizationally and communally. By identifying attrition propensity and quantifying retention effort ROI, organizations can key in on which employees are at greatest risk of flight.
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Getting to "Yes"
As the Talent War heats up, organizations look to Blackbook for offer acceptance support. We solicit online feedback from candidates and then design an experience that drives positive decision making. When candidates see the city through their preference filter, getting to "yes" is a breeze. The result: organizations are raving about their success rate in securing first-choice candidates.
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One-Year Onboarding
Our one-year onboarding and assimilation program is designed to cement employee household ties to an organization and community. 365 includes unlimited access to Yocal+, the employee guideline for planning, community recommendations as well as exclusive offers and access to the city's best and most unique venues. Services are even extended to an additional household member to promote family Embeddedness.
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Thriving Employees
Your employees will feel the love when you offer Yocal+, and so will you. Yocal+ offers employees a personal guide to the events and topics they care about, happening in the place they live. Through hyper-local content, exclusive offers, and quick access to support from the Yocal+ staff, your employees will be able to more easily find the balance of work and home. And Yocal+ does all of this while concurrently measuring their interactions and engagements — providing you with a clear indicator of how likely they are to call this place home.
Benefits
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Save Time
Rest assured that experts are offering vetted resources for local recommendations that align with your employees' preferences. You no longer have to spend hours helping your newest employees find what they need to feel at home in the city.
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Save Money
Embeddedness reduces turnover and the costs associated with it by addressing the hidden turnover danger of perceived community mismatch. Diagnostic tools benchmark current risk and compare to show progress at a fraction of the cost of traditional engagement tools—and with greater impact.
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Improve Performance
Job Embeddedness has been positively linked to increased performance. Engaging the entire household in the community relieves employee stress.
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Look Good
Employers of choice are committed to efforts to create work/life balance and understand it is a decision-criteria for candidates.
About
We value community connection above all else.
At Blackbook we're committed to imagining, developing and launching products to help employees foster deep relationships within their job and community. We know that employees who love where they live are more likely to stay in the place that they work. Our products are used by some of the world's most admired companies and we're quickly becoming the next ‘must-have' solution in the talent marketplace.
More than a decade of research by Dr. Brooks Holtom at Georgetown University has proven that Embeddedness does a better job of explaining retention than job satisfaction and organizational commitment combined.
Dr. Holtom's research has shown that highly embedded employees are not only loyal and therefore retained, but also higher performing than less embedded employees. Instead of focusing on why people leave, Job Embeddedness focuses on why they stay. This is paradigm changing for retention best practices and allows for targeted approaches to be applied to at-risk employees netting the highest return on investment.
