Most full-time employees spend 8 hours a day at the office. Generally speaking, most of us spend more time engaging with colleagues and co-workers than with family and friends, and if it is not a friendly environment, it will be a HUGE problem.
According to a BBC report, a friendly and pleasant working environment is the key to getting the most out of employees.
It is evident that there is a contrast between a social environment and a working environment; to clear this difference, you need to integrate more relaxed personal and friendly influences. A friendly working environment leads to higher job satisfaction and increased productivity, while an offensive or unfriendly working environment leads to boredom, less productivity, and dissatisfaction. Informal get-togethers outside work would develop a higher engagement and interaction rate between employees and increase the opportunity to build high-quality relationships.
It is inexpensive and effortless to create a friendly working environment; it only requires the managerial and leadership roles to lead their team based on a set of standards or principles and to embrace the team personally through clear communication, treating them with respect and putting them first!
Make sure that your employees understand and are passionate about the company’s goal as you are, make them feel like it’s their second home, demonstrate a positive attitude and embrace them with optimism and achievement, this would improve the employees’ morale and in return it would increase employees’ retention rates. So you always have to make sure that your work environment is friendly and inviting, and once it is maintained you can get the BEST out of your employees.