A corporation’s overall facilities and environment can make a tremendous difference in the attitude and energy level of its employees! Is your environment set up in such a way that encourages employees to work together as a team or does it create divisions that may discourage or even undermine cooperation and collaboration?

It is important to remember that most of your employees spend almost a third of their lives at work!
The workplace environment you should strive to create should be a comfortable, inviting place that your employees can look forward to, rather than dread spending time in.

It is unusual that you can provide a great quality service or product without having a great quality work environment. It is linked – quality service or product, quality customer service, quality workplace, and quality of life for your employees!
Here are a few Simple Suggestions to enhance your work environment:
1. Plants
2. Framed Artwork
3. Clean Carpets or Flooring
4. Privacy
5. Adequate, Comfortable Lighting
6. Updated equipment
7. Organized Work Areas
8. Pleasant Reception Area (and Receptionist!)
9. Adequate workspace (allow employees to “decorate” and “personalize” their space with their own items – pictures of family, friends, plants, decorative items.)
10. Fitness Room (this is becoming more common in a health conscious world)

Your clients are the reason for your existence as a company, but to serve your clients best, you have to put YOUR people first! People are your company’s one true competitive measure!”
From your employees standpoint, a great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, take pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you are working with!

Nancy J. Phillips, CPC

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