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9 ways to improve your working environment

Posted by Oliver Corrigan on Aug 15, 2017 8:00:00 AM
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A positive working environment is a vital aspect of sustainable success. The ethos a company has is a key indicator of motivation in the workplace.

The better your work environment, the more rewards you can expect to reap. These benefits include things such as:

  • Attracting new talent
  • Improving team communication
  • Boosting productivity
  • Encouraging creativity
  • Building employee loyalty
  • Reducing sickness and absences

Want to take advantage of these benefits but not sure which steps to take to improve the environment in your office space? Follow our nine steps below.

 

1. Ensure you have great lighting

In a perfect world, every office space would have glorious natural lighting. Unfortunately, the Great British weather doesn’t always provide it! You can make up for this by choosing an office that has good quality lighting installed. Make sure you avoid the two biggest workplace lighting complaints: that they are either too dim or too harsh.

 

2. Remove clutter

Too much clutter in the office can be distracting. This goes for both items on the desks of individual employees and in common areas. To counteract this, take a good look around your office space and consider what is and isn't being used. Unnecessary tech equipment, gratuitous paperwork and general knick knacks can all go.

 

3. Incorporate third space

An office based third space can be an excellent draw for employees. These are generally more laid back breakout-type spaces where employees can hold informal meetings, work independently or socialise with their colleagues. A good third space has been shown to improve productivity, employee engagement and general satisfaction levels.

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4. Bring in greenery

If you’re looking for a low effort way to reduce stress, increase creativity and even improve air quality in your working environment, add some plants to your office space. Scientists agree that workers perform better when plants are added to their workspace.

 

5. Keep things clean

If you want to improve motivation in the workplace and reduce sick days, you’d be wise to increase the regularity of your cleaner. Studies have shown that keyboards can actually be home to more bacteria than the average toilet seat, which is an extremely sobering fact. At Carrwood Park we clean our serviced offices every day.

 

6. Make refreshments easy to access

Healthy food and drink is an important part of keeping your employees wide awake and ready to work. Make things easy for them by ensuring food and drink facilities are easy to access, pleasant to be in and nice and clean.

 

7. Get the temperature right

Setting the temperature right in an office can be a delicate balance. Too hot and your employees will be uncomfortably warm, too cold and they’ll waste energy keeping warm at the expense of their productivity. Research suggests that between 21 and 22 degrees celsius is the ideal temperature.

 

8. Offer customisation

Comfortable employees make effective employees. One great way to do this is to offer customisable options for their desk set up. Each employee will have different needs and comfort priorities: giving each one a budget to choose things such as desk chairs, keyboards, lamps and screens will enable them to meet these needs.

 

9. Encourage movement

Exercise makes people more alert, which in turn helps them to be more productive. Harness this in the office by ensuring employees have plenty of opportunity to exercise during the day. Giving people the opportunity to use a standing desk can help, as can walking meetings and standing meetings.

 

Ready to make a big change to improve your working environment? A move to a thoughtfully designed open plan serviced office could have a very positive impact on your company’s ethos.

 

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