How to improve your company´s work environment

Creating a good work environment is one of the most basic purposes that any entity can have, regardless of the sector to which it belongs. Or, in other words, achieving a core of employees satisfied with their job (and with their company), which in turn results in a performance of their work with greater interest and renewed commitment.

Likewise, an optimal work environment is beneficial, not only for the members of the company, but for the company itself. It is a differential factor to increase and enhance our productivity.

Therefore, in this article we want to explain you some keys and strategies to help you improve your work environment, and how all this positively affects the productivity of your company.

How to improve the work environment of your company?

Next, we offer you several tips that can help you:

Trust and transparency

It is important to make known the reality of our company, even if it is to give bad news. Because transparency is synonymous with trust, and with this we will be able to generate a communicative, close and clear environment that increases the sense of belonging of our employees.

Respect and equality

Every worker must know first-hand the values of the entity. This is vital to promote their personal motivation within the organizational core. As obvious as it sounds, measures such as promoting equality or openly positioning ourselves against workplace harassment, can help us when it comes to creating a favorable work environment

Lidership

A good leader must know how to properly manage daily crises. The versatility and flexibility demonstrated in the face of various situations that may arise at workplace, will determine the level of success that our business is capable of achieving.

Feedback and internal communication

Stimulating a certain communicative fluidity not only provides feedback from workers, but also drives the unity of the team as a whole. Therefore, it is important that each employee feels like a ‘person’ and not just another ‘number’ in the system. We people like to feel heard and integrated, and for that, we must constantly take care of the feedback we offer.

Facilities and equipment

A spacious, clean, orderly, and pleasant workplace will allow employees to perform their functions correctly, and will improve their well-being and productivity in the company. In addition to this, providing the appropriate equipment and tools for the position is also very positive in terms of effectiveness (and more so in this era of teleworking).

Team Building

Team Building is fostered by carrying out activities outside the work environment, whether they are social, sports, cultural outings, etc. In this way, we reinforce our companionship and combat all the stress that may arise along the way. And remember, integration is vital to improve the work environment.

These are just several of the many key points that may allow us, or not, to achieve an ideal work climate. But such satisfaction also goes hand in hand with obtaining results, because every satisfied employee is a productive employee.

And it is precisely this improvement in productivity that we want to focus on now.

What are the benefits of keeping your employees happy?

Fewer and fewer people question the close relationship between a good work environment and the productivity of any company. As we have said above, a healthy work environment directly affects the motivation of workers, which translates into an increase in productivity.

According to a study conducted by the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), there is a real connection between the happiness and satisfaction of workers, and their respective increase in productivity, which reaches an increase of up to 13%. On the other hand, that same study certifies that uncommitted employees are unhappy employees, which, translated into global data, costs the world around 9 trillion dollars (or what is the same, 9% of the global GDP).

Next, we collect some of the main benefits extracted after the application of many of the measures mentioned above. We insist, again, that it does not matter what the sector or area of action of the companies is, as all of them can be obtained if acted correctly.

Greater productivity and efficiency: There is a considerable improvement in both work times and rhythms, as well as in the management of available resources.
Emergence of leaders: By betting on talent search and fostering creativity, you will be favoring that many of your employees adopt roles of greater leadership. That is to say, they will become role models.
Corporate identity: Once this responsibility is acquired by your employees, they will have more weight in the company’s decisions. This will cause a higher level of commitment as a whole and will enhance your brand.
Reduction of absenteeism: Dissatisfaction causes employees not to commit to their function to perform, finding distractions or excuses not to show up for work.
Lower staff turnover: Since the selection and training of employees is usually one of the most costly activities that a company can carry out, retaining talent is very beneficial in terms of the economic profitability of the company.
Better communication: With the development of an ideal work climate, it is possible to bring positions closer and improve the relationship between all parts of the company, which contributes to a better work performance as a whole.
Common objectives: That workers and management team row in the same direction, results in an increase in interest towards business objectives. This causes a proactive participation of your staff in work activities.
Conflict resolution: A good work environment is the best remedy to counteract conflicts and manage internal problems. In order to correctly fulfill the marked objectives, it is a great advantage to have a protocol that marks the line of action in these cases.

Therefore, all these benefits contribute to the achievement of the business objectives of any company, in addition to improving their relationship with customers, and their production and effectiveness. In this way, the company will have much more favorable conditions with which to compete in the market.

Common mistakes when managing the work environment of your company

It’s important to remember that management of the work environment doesn’t just depend on senior positions, but on all members of the company. With this in mind, here is a list of some of the most common mistakes to consider:

Over-mechanizing work.
Poor management of your emotional intelligence.
Not taking care of the workplace comfort.
Not updating resources and office supplies.
Not enabling leisure or rest spaces and time.
Confusing being a good “boss” with being a good “leader”.
Adopting such leadership postures with egocentrism.
Promoting competitiveness instead of cooperation.
Not positively rewarding outstanding achievements.
Looking for individual culprits in tasks that are team-based.

How can New Tandem help you develop your company’s work environment?

One of the best and most effective tools that we have when it comes to measuring our employees’ perception of different aspects of the organization are climate surveys. Thanks to them, we can detect opportunities for improvement and carry out measures in line with the general sentiment of our company.

For this reason, we want to remind you that at New Tandem we offer personalized services of organizational climate surveys.

We have the best team of professionals and experts to help you design these surveys. Our goal is to provide you with a detailed report with all the results and recommendations, in order to improve your work environment. In addition, we include constant advice and accompaniment to ensure the correct implementation of such improvement actions.

To conclude…

Managing the work environment is a process that requires, above all, time. It is useless to work in a rushed manner (even if the final goal is to obtain short-term results), because if we do not take care of our steps well, the effect will be rather the opposite.

But if we give it the necessary time and care, it will be a process that brings us great benefits in all aspects. Because, as we have seen throughout the text, maintaining a healthy work environment improves employee performance and, consequently, increases productivity.

For more information, do not hesitate to contact us or write us to newtandem@newtandem.com