We all spend most of our lives at work, so why not make workplaces nicer?
There is a business case for better workplaces. As some guy once said, “Employee satisfaction is the only real, durable source of customer satisfaction.” Employee satisfaction and engagement has been proven to be good for your customers, good for your company, and if you’ll allow me to be corny for a second… good for the country.
So VOTE FOR MY TOPIC at Ignite Wilmington and I’ll go into some details.
If you don’t want to listen to my 5 minute talk about building an employee satisfaction culture check out Ignite Wilmington anyway. Its pretty cool.
If you don’t know what “ignite Wilmington is, it is…
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..a night of presentations with a twist. Presenting on a subject of their choice, speakers have exactly five minutes to teach something, enlighten us, or simply inspire—backed by twenty slides auto-advancing every fifteen seconds. Quick, fun, and smart, Ignite sells out the largest venues in Wilmington.
Employers should review their organizations to see who could really work at home, if they wanted to. This might require some IT investment.
Didn’t you just post about emailing someone down the hall? That guy could probably work at home.
Also, access to healthy food and opportunity to exercise. That doesn’t mean just putting raisins in the vending machine.
Those things are nice, but we’ve found that the interpersonal climate is a better predictor of satisfaction than the physical climate. That why Employee Satisfaction is so cheap to implement, and provides such a robust ROI.