HAPPINESS
Improve engagement, productivity, and health by fostering a happier and more meaningful work experience for your employees.
Engagement Is More Than Performance
Employee engagement is certainly an effective mantra. But, we have to be careful that engagement doesn’t become synonymous with performance. We have to remember that engagement also has an emotional component. We propose that component is happiness.
With workplace design, some attempts (think slides, sandboxes, and ping pong tables) have been made to promote fun and social connection. But the conversation is changing. Companies, and even whole countries, aspire to a broader, more enduring outcome than productivity or engagement.
This emerging conversation is around the idea of happiness. Real happiness—and a meaningful life—is not a short-term emotion. It is an enduring state that can lead to productive, engaged, and healthy employees.
There are huge opportunities to effectively use workspace design in a more organic fashion to promote this enduring state of happiness. This translates to space with more flexibility and choice, leading to more interaction. According to the 2017 World Happiness Report released at the United Nations International Day of Happiness, activities that increase social capital—such as support people receive from fellow workers—are connected to happiness and higher engagement.
5 Tips To Boost Employee Happiness
Realistically, not everyone works in a really cool, well-designed office. So, here are 5 tips to help your employees feel valued and promote happiness, no matter where you work.
#1 Legibility
Ensure your employees can see and find each other, they understand the layout of the space and that workspaces and furnishings convey their intended use.
#2 User Control
Increase the control your employees have over their primary workspaces (i.e. adjustability of primary workspace features).
#3 Technology
Ensure that your employees have the right technology in their individual workspaces.
#4 Daylight
Ensure your employees have sufficient access to daylight from their workspaces.
#5 Storage
Provide your employees with adequate storage in their workspaces.
ABOUT US
At InteriorLOGIC, we build work environments. From our home office in Madison, WI our award-winning commercial interior design team focuses on creating spaces that work. We continually work to improve the end user experience with each design and our team is well-suited for challenging projects including LEED certification and sustainability projects. For more information about our business and approach, please visit www.intlogic.com.