As a company owner, you want any person that you employ to work productively throughout the whole day. This, however, is generally not the case; even the best of employees are going to lose focus, even if it’s just for a little bit, at some point during the day. You can target this problem in a number of ways, including threatening redundancies, dismissals and disciplinarians, or docking pay — but this is just mean. You should seek to stimulate your employees, rather than threaten them, and you can start by building a futuristic office space that inspires the workers inside it to be consistently motivated.
Image sourceThe future office will be as much about fun as work. Googles office in Zurich has a massage room, aquarium and a slide to deliver engineers smoothly and quickly to the canteen. Sounds a bit too fun to be a working environment, doesn’t it? And that’s exactly the point — making employees feel that they aren’t in a working environment, and rather are in a fun and relaxing place, similar to their homes, then they are more likely to feel more relaxed and welcome to feelings of motivation and wanting to be proactive and productive. Other ways that other companies have taken to stimulating their workforce through futuristic offices can be found here.
Increase productivity through innovative ideas. You may never have considered lighting to be a significant stimuli when it comes to productivity, but it can be. Levels of absenteeism can be reduced by good lighting through the fact that it takes away the side effects of eyestrain, blurred vision, dry eyes and musculoskeletal injuries caused by people getting too close and straining to see something under poor lighting conditions. As well as this, an innovative idea when it comes to increasing productivity is by making use of modern day technologies in novel ways. Plastic cards, specifically custom ID cards, can be created and given to each employee in order to make the environment seem more official, even when there is no real practical need for them. This could induce them to feel as if the company is really getting somewhere, making them feel as if they want to help it get even bigger in the future. Other office innovations you should try as you seek to drag your office with your company into the future include: standing desks, a way for employees to not only irradiate health issues but to increase their productivity; the ‘super desk’, essentially higher and longer shared desks that come with stools and are moveable so can be configured to work individually or collaboratively; and quiet spaces, so the space doesn’t feel too clinical and depressing.
Like every other aspect of your company’s business, you must keep your office space’s finger on the pulse of all the latest technology and innovations. In order to get your company placed firmly in the market in, say, ten years time, you can start the process of doing so today by tending to your workspace.
