The work environment is the place where we spend most of our time and colleagues are the people we interact with most frequently, and for these reasons it must be protected.
How many of us take the time to observe our business climate? Sometimes, in the frenzy that characterizes the days, we do not realize how our collaborators live and spend time in the company, although it is an element that everyone can perceive.
This problem is common to many realities.
The corporate climate is comparable to the gear of a watch: for the watch to work, the gear must, in turn, be efficient.
Numerous researches show how the organizational climate has a significant impact on company performance, also in terms of economic results.
More and more companies are carrying out an analysis of their business climate because they are aware of how the results regarding the climate, motivation or engagement are able to provide extremely important information on the health of a company.
Considering that we spend 80% of our day working, we must ask ourselves if we would prefer to do it in a pleasant, harmonious and collaborative environment or in a hostile and adverse one.
Obviously the choice of all of us will fall on the first alternative.
Work is an important component of our life. For this reason, making sure that your company becomes a great place to work is a winning element both for the collaborator, who lives their work in a positive way, and for the management who sees an increase in company performance, the level of innovation, competitiveness on the market.
And when you hear your employees say that they are satisfied with the work they do, you will know that the business climate is positive and that your company can count on this strength to grow in productivity and profitability.
Selection and welfare
The phase of selection of collaborators is very delicate and fundamental.
During the interview it is necessary to evaluate, in addition to the skills, also the character characteristics, doing the exercise of imagining the candidate in the context in which he will be inserted
The second element concerns corporate well-being. It is a tool that allows the employee to use a set of services and initiatives promoted by the employer.
These are activities aimed at improving the quality of life of the employee and include services such as the company nursery, the gym subscription, the coupons for the purchase of school texts, the transport pass, the laundry service, etc.
Through welfare plans, the lives of employees improve, as does their personal well-being. Let’s think, for example, of the impact that the company nursery had on business realities.
Employees with children are very often forced to spend hours in traffic to retrieve children in kindergarten, their minds are focused on calculating the perfect timing to get out of work and get to school on time, without taking away time from work or even family.
Smart working
The third point is represented by smart working. Smart working represents a new way of working that disconnects the productivity of the worker from the place and time of work, introducing the concept of flexibility and work by objectives, leaving the employee to manage their own time.
The result of flexibility in working hours and places allows the employee to reconcile private life with working life in a more harmonious way, generating motivation and increasing the level of productivity.
The good working climate therefore represents something fundamental for the productivity and well-being of employees.
The more their needs will be understood by the companies, the more there will be a good working climate, less work stress, better collaboration between collaborators and greater satisfaction in what is done thus increasing productivity.