Ways a company can create a healthy and more balanced work environment!

[Mellorando]

There are many factors that contribute to productivity in the workplace - and a healthy work environment is one of them. What's a healthy work environment? It's one that provides employees with both a physically and mentally safe workspace. Here are eight tips to make your work environment healthier and, in turn, increase your employee productivity and happiness.
What makes a company a great place to work? Is it the perks? The location? Maybe the compensation? Ultimately, the key to creating and sustaining a high-performing organization is establishing a healthy work environment. Businesses that prioritize long-term success must show that they care about their employees, whether their team members are on-site, remote, or part time. But it’s hard to define a healthy work environment, let alone put it into practice particularly when so many employees are working from home.

Below are 8 Steps to Create a Positive and Healthy Work Environment:

1 Use a standing desk.
2 Create a comfortable space.
3 Recognize and reward employees.
4 Keep your team connected.
5 Bring in some plants.
6 Provide clean air.
7 Paint your workspace green.
8 Encourage conflict among employees.

 

[Eva Dav]

I would add here a good communication. Having good communication throughout a team, not just between employee and employer, creates a healthier working environment. Healthy confrontation and conflict is important in an organization, as it brings out innovative ideas and opinions. Also here to add to it is important that the company encourages exercise for example with a walking club at lunch. For mental health, encourage mini breaks.

 

[Good-Guy]

Well, the fact of the matter is that maintaining a great environment in your office or any other work place is very important. You can maintain and improve the atmosphere or the environment of the office by various methods. First of all, you must focus on security aspect of workers. You must have proper fire extinguishers and fire alarm system. It would not make sense if you focus on buying plants and overlook the safety aspect of your employees. I used to work in a place where they never considered these things. They never had any emergency exit points in the whole office! They had one exit through stair and they used to lock it.

The only way to exit the building was through lift and If fire got spread there, then the only way they could leave the building is by taking risk and climbing the gate that they locked and this is really risk. If someone falls from there, then they could even lose their lives. I find it strange that companies often overlook such basic things and only focus on making profits. There have been many cases of employees losing their lives due to a lack of these facilities!

 

[Caramelle]

The no. 8 on the list, "Encourage conflict among employees", got me here. How can the environment be positive and healthy if your strategy is to encourage conflict among employees?! I do remember a general manager of my ex-company who used that strategy to the company's advantage. Good internal control will usually require some functions and positions to be separate from other functions and positions. For example, although they are both under the Finance Department, the accounting section should be independent of the treasury section and cash custodians should not be the same person to record transactions involving cash. Another person should be doing the bank reconciliation.

When employees get too friendly with each other, the lines of control and independence could be compromised. That's how the general manager viewed the situation. He was probably right up to a certain point, but anyone who has been at odds with another employee at work would know how difficult and toxic it could be. In general, it would not be healthy to encourage conflict. What should be encouraged is professional collaboration among employees.​

 

[Kingsley]

One of the most noticeable thing in any work environment is the serenity in the environment. When clients and customers comes into a business organization they take their time to access the place very well and to see how the workers relate with one another and how they relate with their boss. So it is the responsibility of the management to coordinate, lead, direct and control the activities of their employees in other to bring out the best in them so as to to ensure that the work environment remains healthy and their is a level playing ground for everyone in the organizations.

For the management team to achieve this they must ensure that they provide every necessary tools and equipment as required by both the employees and the job too to ensure a smooth operation by their staffs.

They should also provide a platform where workers can share their opinion on issues affecting the growth and advancementI the organization. They should also ensure that they provide an efficient means of communication with all the levels of staffs with the organization.

Then they should also ensure that they resolve any issue raising up it ugly head on time and make sure works pay are given as agreed.