September 7th, 2009

Making your workplace a ”fun” place

  Sans titreIt’s been proven over and over again - there is a direct relationship between employees who have fun, feel appreciated, and enjoy their job and employee motivation, productivity, creativity, satisfaction and retention. Having fun at work can help morale, reduce stress, improve staff retention, mean less sick days and increase team building and spirit. People spend about 75% of their adult wake time doing work-related activities – getting ready for work, travelling to work, working, contemplating work, and decompressing from work. An atmosphere of fun at work in any organization facilitates flexibility, change and better communication and employees are more creative, more productive, get along better with co-workers, have greater corporate loyalty, are more committed, and have a healthier work/life balance. Employers can keep their most talented people by creating an exciting atmosphere where employees want to come to work. You can't expect your employees ... Read more