How to increase Employee Happiness and Productivity?

There are employees who prefer to work from home, some don’t like it at all, and some love to have the mixture. A study found out, that the possibility for remote work increases employee happiness by 20% (Tracking Happiness, 2022). Which proves that it is worth it to offer your employees ‘mobile working from home’ or hybrid working models.

Offering the right product solutions so your employees can work ergonomically correct in the home office is of equal importance to keep them healthy and happy. We assume that you already provide your people with a work laptop as basic equipment to work remotely. But to create or retain productive and healthy employees you should consider providing a complete ergonomic setup. This ensures your employees to stay healthy and happy without you being physically present. 

Hard-working and motivated employees are important, but at the same time you should make sure that your employees do not exhaust themselves. It seems contradictory to allow your employees to take more frequent, but tiny, breaks, but it is proven that regular ‘pitstops’ lead to more productivity and well-being (The Wellbeing Thesis).

Personal coach
To help you incorporate this advice and way of working we’ve developed your personal coach in WORK & MOVE™ Software. This software is your personal coach, providing enough alternation between digital screen work and mental and physical movement. The software advises you on an optimal work-movement-pitstop rhythm on the basis of your personal needs and helps you to make this personal rhythm your own.

Sit-stand profile
Aside your personal pitstop profile you can set a personal sit-stand profile to increase movement at your workplace as well. Little pop-up windows are shown on the screen and motivate to take periodic pitstops behind your desk of 10 seconds up to 3 minutes. But also reminds you when it's time to really get up and move based on clock time or your active computer time, which is measured by your mouse and keyboard usage.

By building in periodical mental and physical movement moments you keep your concentration and energy levels as high and stable as they can be, allowing you to make less mistakes, improve the quality of your work and do both in less time!

A big impact on how workers can do their job is the overall office environment. The physical layout of an office plays a much greater role in employees’ happiness than you might expect. It is an easy equation, the more comfortable you feel in your environment the happier you are, leading to more productivity (Kamarulzaman et al., 2011). 

The perfect office is a combination of a visually appealing design and practicality for optimal productivity in today's working models. If your organisation is already following a hybrid working model (working at home and in the office), your office should be a destination for collaborative and social work, but with designated quiet spaces for concentrated work. The solution: shared-desks and meeting-rooms.