Kristina Singleton
09-01-2025
With more and more research showing that a happy employee is a productive employee, organisations are having to ensure that their office culture and overall company policies promote a happy working environment. For example, according to the Social Market Foundation, employee happiness results in a highly significant increase of almost 20% in productivity.
The Employee Happiness Index 2018 reports that HR leaders' primary responsibility is to boost employee performance through their corporate responsibilities and benefits schemes, a topic we’ll revisit later.
In order for your company to succeed, it’s vital that your employees genuinely care about their position and are keen to drive results. But, this can only be achieved when employees feel appreciated, respected, and generally positive in the workplace.
As we’ve mentioned, there’s an undeniable connection between productivity and happiness, so it’s essential to ensure that your employees' moods are in top form to achieve the results you’re looking for. A bad mood acts as a clear mental block from reaching peak performance, so how can you keep your employees happy?
There's nothing positive about a stressful environment. You wouldn't want to work in one, and neither do your employees. Stressful environments only put a bigger strain on employee pressures and responsibilities. These pressures can cause even the most productive employees to feel overwhelmed, unproductive, and ultimately, unhappy.
But there are a few things organisations can do to reduce the negative effects of a busy office environment and improve the company culture:
Encourage employees to take breaks away from the desk
Offering healthy snacks, smoothies and refreshments
Having office gym/yoga sessions
Organising company socials/ activities.
With the likes of Teams, Zoom, Slack and everything in between, employees are finding it more and more tricky to switch off from work and spend time with their families and friends outside the office.
Almost half (48%) of employees surveyed as part of the Modern Families Index reported that working hours often make it challenging to spend time with their children, with around two-thirds stating that they regularly failed to leave work on time every day.
It’s easy to understand how employee happiness may decline due to an always-on office environment. But there are ways in which organisations can make changes to their policies to better suit their employees. These involve:
Remote working
Flexible working hours
Time limits on emails
An excellent way to boost employee engagement and truly make them feel recognised for their efforts is by offering an employee benefits scheme. These platforms work to reward employees with endless discounts and savings to ease financial burdens and make the most of their time with loved ones outside of work.
Here at Ello Group, we support companies by setting up loyalty and reward platforms tailored to their employees. We can offer a selection of dining rewards, coffee shop rewards, entertainment benefits, and cinema rewards.
These rewards platforms are well worth considering for your organisation if you're wondering how to improve employee happiness and are keen to boost employee engagement.
Hopefully, we’ve helped you work out how to improve employee happiness. If you’re intrigued by the sound of our benefits scheme, feel free to get in touch with our brilliant team of customer engagement specialists to put a new business strategy in place.
