Whether you hire directly, or employ a staffing employment agency, all employees have the same basic needs. To ensure the best business and results, it is crucial that you meet those basic needs. With those needs met, you will have happy and satisfied employees, and that makes for better work in turn. If you do use a staffing employment agency, they may be able to give you some ideas about keeping happy employees, but you can also find four ideas below.
1. Training
Proper and thorough training is imperative to your business for a number of reasons. If you are hiring on your own, you may need to do more training than if you got an experienced worker through staffing employment, but the benefits of employee training cannot be ignored. A fully trained employee can do their job with confidence and expertise. They never need to feel self conscious about whether they are doing the right thing. And by being really good at something, they can take pride in their job.
2. Awards
Employee award programs are fantastic incentive to keep your employees happy and doing the best job they can. Whether it is simply acknowledging their hard work and giving them a genuine “Good job”, or starting contests for the employees to playfully compete against each other, recognizing them for their hard work and dedication encourages them to strive and thrive.
3. Health
The health of your employees is important to keep the company running. Without getting into the Affordable Health Care Act, you should consider some employee health programs. Giving them the ability to afford going to the doctor and making sure they are in top health keeps them not only healthy, but happy knowing that they never need to worry about getting sick. Unfortunately, health care has become a privilege in our country, and those who finally gain access to it do actually feel special.
4. EoM
Finally, the standard employee of the month programs can actually do wonders for employee morale. Recognition is a powerful tool to making your employees feel valued and appreciated. Giving them that recognition, and perhaps some incentive to achieve that rank, is enough to make them want to work harder, and feel accomplished when they achieve it.
All it takes is a little creativity and you can make your employees some of the happiest around. Sure, you may not be able to do what Google does and give them hammocks to nap in and ball pits, but you can still give your employees a reason to be happy when they come to work. One final thing to remember, if their manager is not happy, then an employee has no reason to be happy.
16 responses to “Happy Workers Are the Best Workers How Happy Are Your Workers?”
holy cow so true on all accounts. i have some managers who are just so miserable that i no one ever wants to work with them.
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and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.
and the health care thing? whoa. i know it is a hot button issue right now, and that is a good thing, because it is about time that people get access to it.