It’s always disheartening receive resignation letters from top talent. If you’ve been losing a steady stream of your best workers, it’s time to take a long, hard look at your company. Surprisingly, your office environment may be the issue. Learn how to create a space designed to increase satisfaction and engagement levels.
5 Tips to Make Your Office Environment Better
Use these five tips to transform your work space into a place that makes people feel inspired:
Switch Things Up
Sitting at the same desk, around the same surroundings can get pretty mundane. Change the look of your space every couple of years, so your décor doesn’t get tired and depressing. The updates don’t have to be drastic or expensive — just enough to keep your interiors from becoming too drab. Top talent wants to work in an aesthetically pleasing office that stimulates creativity.
Control the Temperature
People are largely impacted by the temperature of your office. If you try to cut costs by raising the thermostat during the summer months and lowering it in the winter, you can expect a decrease in output. For best results, keep the temperature around a moderate 71 degrees Fahrenheit.
Offer a View
An infographic from Intuit QuickBooks U.K. revealed that employees with the best outdoor views performed 10-16% better than those without a view. Try your best to situate employees’ desks within view of a window. If this isn’t possible, create a shared space in front of a window where people can step away from their workstations for a few minutes and enjoy a view of the outside world.
Don’t Be Too Rigid
It’s important to establish rules for your office, but don’t go overboard. People work best in different ways, so what makes one person productive may not be effective for another. For example, allowing people to wear headphones may help them concentrate and permitting limited social media use might actually enhance output.
Offer Great Leadership
Company leaders can make an office environment a positive and happy place to be or a miserable one. Train your managers to open the lines of communication with their teams, be approachable, set realistic deadlines and lead by example. Getting rid of offices and having senior-level employees sit with everyone else is a great way to break down barriers.
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