What impacts employee engagement for your organization? The answers are unique to your culture. Workplace design serves as a connection between how employees feel about the company and what motivates them to do their best work. The right physical environment, including social spaces, can tip the scales toward better engagement.
What is the purpose of a workplace? Ultimately, it is an environment that helps people get work done. At our core, we all want to do our best and be successful. Providing a workplace experience that fuels this desire is the best way to engage employees.
In today’s rapidly evolving work environments, supporting employees' emotional needs has become increasingly important for their well-being and performance. Emotional Affordances, one of 3 components of Haworth’s Affordances framework, describe how environments evoke a range of emotions to influence our experience at work.
The “office” is a place of social context. Interaction with colleagues makes us happiest at work. When given the choice, employees are drawn to the places that make them feel the best and most productive. Download our design guide, explore space designs, and more to support the benefits of employee engagement.
Happiness is connected to organizational metrics such as productivity and retention. The goal of “happiness” is a new metric for success in work and life, leading to more engaged, higher-performing, and healthier employees. See our research findings, and how workspace design can be leveraged for employee happiness and meaningful work.
With headquarter operations spread throughout 4 locations, keeping everything flowing to engage employees was a challenge for this growing company. Learn how access to public transportation, social spaces, and open-air gathering spots primed this utility company to bring their people together and support community.
To redesign its headquarters, a nationwide cooperative asked their workforce for input and feedback. They created 15 engagement committees, providing all employees the opportunity to participate in research, discussions, and recommendations. See how employee engagement generated ideas to bring the space to life.
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